Here, 1. David prays that he might live a quiet and peaceable life, and
might not be harassed and discomposed by those that studied to be
vexatious: "Deliver me from the oppression of man--man, whom God can
control, and whose power is limited. Let them know themselves to be but
men (Ps. ix. 20), and let me be delivered out of the hands of my
enemies, that I may serve God without fear; so will I keep thy
precepts." Not but that he would keep God's precepts, though he should
be continued under oppression; "but so shall I keep thy precepts more
cheerfully and with more enlargement of heart, my bonds being loosed."
Then we may expect temporal blessings when we desire them with this in
our eye, that we may serve God the better.