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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 71 This psalm is without a title, but is thought to be David's: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and all the Oriental ones, ascribe it to him; and both the subject and style show it to be his. According to the title of the Syriac version, it was composed by him when Saul made war against the house of David; but this is not likely, since it was written by him in...
John Gill
[Thou], which hast showed me great and sore troubles,.... Or, "made [him] to see" (g); that is, to experience. David had his troubles, and these were great, both as to quantity and quality; and very grievous and hard to be borne, and were very trying and afflictive: some outward, such as he endured when persecuted by Saul; and afterwards in his own family, though the incest of Ammon, the murder...
Matthew Henry
David penned this psalm in his old age, as appears by several passages in it, which makes many think that it was penned at the time of Absalom's rebellion; for that was the great trouble of his later days. It might be occasioned by Sheba's insurrection, or some trouble that happened to him in that part of his life of which it was foretold that the sword should not depart from his house. But he is...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. This we shall experience in part even in our present lifetime; but we shall much more fully experience it on the resurrection morning, — “When Christ his risen saints shall bring From beds of dust, and silent clay, To realms of everlasting day.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, “Thou shalt not merely deliver me from my great and sore...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. “Though I seem to be like a man buried in the depth of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.”