To cry out, "My God, why am I sick? Why am I poor?" would give cause to suspect discontent and worldliness. Note, Spiritual desertions are the saints' sorest afflictions when their evidences are clouded, divine consolations suspended, their communion with God interrupted, and the terrors of God set in array against them, how sad are their spirits, and how sapless all their comforts!Įven their complaint of these burdens is a good sign of spiritual life and spiritual senses exercised. This may be applied to David, or any other child of God, in the want of the tokens of his favour, pressed with the burden of his displeasure, roaring under it, as one overwhelmed with grief and terror, crying earnestly for relief, and, in this case, apprehending himself forsaken of God, unhelped, unheard, yet calling him, again and again, "My God," and continuing to cry day and night to him and earnestly desiring his gracious returns. But others think it denotes only the tune to which the psalm was set. He is the hind of the morning, marked out by the counsels of God from eternity, to be run down by those dogs that compassed him. Christ is as the swift hind upon the mountains of spices, as the loving hind and the pleasant roe, to all believers (Proverbs 5:19) he giveth goodly words like Naphtali, who is compared to a hind let loose, Genesis 49:21.
Some think they find Christ in the title of this psalm, upon Aijeleth Shahar-The hind of the morning.
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