Psalms 71:7

“I am as a wonder unto many, etc.] To the multitude, to the populace, or “to the great” f959 and mighty; and indeed to both: which respects not his wonderful preservation from the womb, he had before observed; nor his being in a wonderful manner raised to the throne of Israel; nor the wonderful things and amazing exploits done by him, and victories he obtained; nor the wonderful instances of divine grace and goodness to him; but rather the forlorn and distressed state and condition he was now in, being obliged to quit his palace, and flee from the face of his son, accompanied only with a few of his servants; and so was a shocking sight, a spectacle, as the apostle says of himself, to others,…”

“I am as a wonder unto many - The word here rendered “wonder” - מופת môphêth - means properly a miracle, a prodigy; then things that are suited to excite wonder or admiration; then, a sign, a token. See the notes at Isaiah 8:18. The meaning here is, that the course of things in regard to him - the divine dealings toward him - had been such as to excite attention; to strike the mind as something unusual, and out of the common course, in the same way that miracles do. This might be either from the number and the character of the calamities which had come upon him; or from the narrow escapes which he had had from death; or from the frequency of the divine intervention in his behalf; or from…”

“A wonder - For my many and sore calamities. Psalms 71:15”

“as a wonder: Kemopaton, "as a prodigy," my low estate: \- my slaying the lion and bear, \- conquering the Philistine, \- escaping the fury of Saul, \- being raised to the throne of Israel, \- enduring such uncommon trials and afflictions, \- and experiencing such wonderful deliverances. These all mark me out as the subject of "wonder unto many; but Thou art my strong Refuge." Isa 8:18; Zac 3:6; Luk 2:34; Act 4:13; Co1 4:9; Co2 4:8-12, Co2 6:8-10 thou art: Psa 62:7, Psa 142:4, Psa 142:5; Jer 16:19 Psalms 71:8”

“Brought safely through dangers of every kind, he is become כּמופת, as a wonder, a miracle (Arabic aft from afata, cognate afaka, הפך, to bend, distort: a turning round, that which is turned round or wrenched, i.e., that which is contrary to what is usual and looked for) to many, who gaze upon him as such with astonishment ( Psa 40:4). It is his God, however, to whom, as hitherto so also in time to come, he will look to be thus wonderfully preserved: מחסי־עז, as in Sa2 22:33. עז is a genitive, and the suffix is thrown back (vid., supra, p 171) in order that what God is to, and does for, the poet may be brought forward more clearly and independently \[lit. unalloyed\]. Psa 71:8 tells us what…”