Introduction
The psalmist is certainly in straits, beset with physical dangers. Psalms 141:1; Psalms 141:7. At the same time his social life is exposed to temptations of hasty and unadvised speech, and to the contagion of voluptuous and careless living, (Psalms 141:3-4,) to the indulgence of which he prefers the severe, though kindly, rebukes of the righteous. Psalms 141:5. His pacific counsels to his enemies had not been accepted, and he now seeks for help against these complicated evils. Psalms 141:6. The indications of historic occasion point more probably to David’s second sojourn in the Philistine country (1 Samuel 27:1-2) than to any other part of his history, where, with his six hundred men, he for a time remained at Gath, and afterward was assigned the village of Ziklag in the south, on the borders of the desert. We accept the title, there being no satisfactory reason to reject it.
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