Psalm 22:9-10 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts.… 1. He takes notice of common mercies. Such mercies as most men are partakers of. To come safe and sound into the world, and to be persuaded and sustained in it, they are such things as most men have allotted and vouchsafed unto them. But there are very few who are sensible of common mercies, — such is the corruption of our nature and our base ingratitude. 2. He acknowledges ancient mercies. He remembers those mercies which another would have forgotten. The mercies of his infancy and childhood and younger years. We should remember both temporal and spiritual mercies. 3. He remembers primitive or original mercies. Those mercies which he had at first, in the very entrance or beginning of his life when he first came into the world, and were likewise the ground and foundation of all the rest. It is with mercies as with judgments, one makes way for another, and the first is so much the more considerable as it induces and brings in the rest. 4. He takes notice of constant mercies. Those which were continued to him from the first moment of his being till now, through the whole course of his life to this present. He takes notice of the goodness of God to him in the full latitude and extent of it. See now the specification of the several particulars. (1) The blessings of the womb, in his birth and first coming into the world. (2) The blessings of the breast, in his nursery and first sustentation in the world. (3) The blessing of the cradle, in the tutelary care of his orphanage and desolate condition. (4) The blessings of the covenant, in the continued and mutual interest which he had in God and God in him. (T. Horton, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.WEB: But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts. |
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