Psalms 37:28

“My soul melteth for heaviness, etc.] Like wax before the sun or fire; or flows like water; drops f1652, as the word signifies, and dissolves into tears, through grief and sorrow for sins committed; or by reason of Satan’s temptations, or divine desertions, or grievous troubles and afflictions; which cause heaviness, lie heavy, and press hard; strengthen thou me according unto thy word; to oppose corruptions, withstand temptations, bear up under trials and afflictions, and do the will of God. And the word of God is a means of strengthening his people to do these things; it is the spiritual bread which strengthens man’s heart, and in the strength of which, like Elijah, he walks many days, and…”

“For the Lord loveth judgment - That is, God loves that which is right; he loves to do right. The idea is, that such a recompense as is here adverted to - that on the one hand, in rewarding with prosperity a pure and upright life - and that, on the other, in cutting off the wicked - is right and proper in itself; and that as God loves to do right, these consequences respectively may be expected to follow in regard to the righteous and the wicked. Compare Psalms 11:7. And forsaketh not his saints - He manifests his sense of that which is right, by not forsaking His saints. They are preserved forever - They are ever under his paternal eye, and he will keep them. It will be literally true that…”

“loveth: Psa 11:7, Psa 45:6, Psa 45:7, Psa 99:4; Isa 30:18, Isa 61:8; Jer 9:24 forsaketh: Psa 37:25, Psa 37:40, Psa 92:13-15; Isa 59:21; Jer 32:40, Jer 32:41; Joh 5:24, Joh 6:39, Joh 6:40; Joh 10:28-30, Joh 15:9; Jo1 2:19; Pe1 1:5; Jde 1:1 but: Psa 21:10; Exo 20:5; Job 18:19, Job 27:14; Pro 2:22; Isa 14:20, Isa 14:21 Psalms 37:29”