(a) He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the {b} lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

(b) He means his earnest zeal and gesture, which he used in prayer: alluding to the sacrifices which were by God's commandment offered in the old law.

3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their {d} dainties.

(d) Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are.

5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let {e} him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

(e) He could abide all corrections that came from a loving heart.

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall {g} hear my words; for they are sweet.

(g) The people who follow their wicked rulers in persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished.

7 Our bones are scattered at the {h} grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

(h) Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in 2Co 1:9,10.

8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

10 Let the wicked fall into {i} their own nets, {k} whilst that I withal escape.

(i) Into God's nets, by which he catches the wicked in their own malice.

(k) So that none of them escape.