Psalms 37:25

“DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust, etc.] Either to the dust of death, having the sentence of it; being almost in despair of life, upon the brink of the grave seemingly, and free among the dead: or in a very low estate of mind, in great dejection and humiliation, rolling himself in the dust, and putting his mouth in it; if there might be any hope of deliverance; but despairing of it, unless the Lord appeared; or finding a proneness in him to the corruption of nature, the body of sin and death, which was very powerful and prevalent, ensnaring and captivating; and particularly to worldly things, comparable to dust, for their lightness, emptiness, and unprofitableness; which often have an…”

“I have been young - The idea in this whole passage is, “I myself have passed through a long life. I have had an opportunity of observation, wide and extended. When I was a young man, I looked upon the world around me with the views and feelings which belong to that period of existence; when in middle life, I contemplated the state of things with the more calm and sober reflections pertaining to that period, and to the opportunities of wider observation; and now, in old age, I contemplate the condition of the world with all the advantages which a still wider observation and a longer experience give me, and with the impartial judgment which one has who is about to leave the world. And the…”

“Forsaken - These temporal promises, were more express to the Jews in the times of the Old Testament, than to Christians. Psalms 37:26”

“37:25-26 The Lord does not abandon his children or their descendants.”

“I have: Psa 71:9, Psa 71:18; Job 32:6, Job 32:7; Act 21:16; Plm 1:8, Plm 1:9 yet: Psa 37:28, Psa 94:14; Jos 1:5; Sa1 12:22; Isa 13:16; Co2 4:9; Heb 12:5, Heb 12:6; Heb 13:5 nor his seed: Psa 25:13, Psa 59:15, Psa 109:10, Psa 112:2; Gen 17:7; Job 15:23; Pro 13:22; Luk 1:53-55 Psalms 37:26”

“There is an old theological rule: promissiones corporales intelligendae sunt cum exceptione crucis et castigationis. Temporary forsakenness and destitution the Psalm does not deny: it is indeed even intended to meet the conflict of doubt which springs up in the minds of the God-fearing out of certain conditions and circumstances that are seemingly contradictory to the justice of God; and this it does, by contrasting that which in the end abides with that which is transitory, and in fact without the knowledge of any final decisive adjustment in a future world; and it only solves its problem, in so far as it is placed in the light of the New Testament, which already dawns in the Book of…”