Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.

ZAIN.

49 Remember the word d 1.1 unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope e 1.2.

50 This f 1.3 is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickned me g 1.4.

51 The proud have had me greatly in derisi∣on h 1.5: yet have I not declined from thy law.

52 I remembred thy judgments of old i 1.6, O LORD, and have comforted my self.

53 Horrour k 1.7 hath taken hold upon me, be∣cause of the wicked that forsake thy law l 1.8.

54 Thy statutes have been my songs m 1.9 in the house of my pilgrimage n 1.10.

55 I have remembred thy Name o 1.11, O LORD, in the night p 1.12, and have kept thy law q 1.13.

56 This r 1.14 I had, because I kept thy precepts s 1.15.

Notes

• d 1.1

  Thy promises.
• e 1.2

  By thy command requiring it of me, and by thy grace working it in me.
• f 1.3

  To wit, thy word, as is evident both from the forego∣ing and following words.
• g 1.4

  Hath preserved my life in mani∣fold dangers, and hath revived and cheared my spirit.
• h 1.5

  For my godliness and trust in thy word, as the follow∣ing words imply.
• i 1.6

  Thy former and ancient dispensations to the children of men in punishing the ungodly, and protecting and deliver∣ing thy faithful servants, whose experience is my encourage∣ment.
• k 1.7

  A mixed passion made up of indignation at their per∣sons as sinful, and abhorrency of their sins, and dread and sorrow at the consideration of the judgments of God coming upon them.
• l 1.8

  For the dishonour which they bring to God, the scandal and mischief to others, and their own certain ruine.
• m 1.9

  The matter of my songs, my delight and recreation.
• n 1.10

  Either, 1. in this present world, which I do not owne for my home, wherein I am a stranger and pilgrim, as all my fathers were, Psal. 39. 13. Comp. Gen. 47. 9. Or, 2. in mine exile and in the wildernesses and other places where I have been oft forced to wander, when I was banished from all my friends, and from the place of thy Worship, and had no other support or comfort but the remembrance of thy statutes.
• o 1.11

  Thy holy Nature and Attributes, thy blessed Word, and thy wonderful Works: all which come under the title of Gods Name.
• p 1.12

  When darkness causeth fear in others, I took pleasure in remembring thee: and when others abandon all business, and wholly give themselves up to rest and sleep, my thoughts and affection were working towards thee.
• q 1.13

  This was the fruit of my serious remembrance of thee.
• r 1.14

  This comfortable and profitable remembrance and con∣templation of thy name and statutes, of which he spoke v. 54, 55.
• s 1.15

  Which if I had wilfully and wickedly broken, the re∣membrance of these things would have been sad and frightful to me, as now it is comfortable, because I kept them.