Commentary on Psalms - Volume 2

The following psalm cannot so properly be said to consist of prayers as of a variety of pious meditations, which comforted the mind of David under dangers, anxieties, and troubles of a severe description. It contains the vows too which he made to God in the distress occasioned by the alarming circumstances in which he was placed.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. (1 Samuel 22:5; 23:14, 24, 25; 24:1; and Joshua 15:55, 62)(2 Samuel 15:23; 16:2; and 17:29)⁴²⁴