PSALM LXXVm 187

the patient. ^, mj/ hand,' is better than 'wy itrohe or my 90t4^
The whole expression is to the effect, that the Psahnist was
Tory earnest in prayer, tmremittingly extending his hands
towards heaven, an attitude by which' man is accustomed to
address his petitions to God. ^tt^j , mg soul hath refbsed to
be comforted, on account of the magnitude of my sorrows*

4. The Psalmist is describing here, as in the last Verse/
how he acted in the day of his trouble ; how he remembered
Ood, which corresponds with seeking Him in the foriner verse ;
how he was disquieted, and meditated in prayer, which agrees
with imremittingly stretching the hands, both being indications
of much emotion of mind and prayerM spirit; and finally^
liow his soul was overwhelmed, which corresponds with '^.my
soul refusing to be comforted." It is in such correspondences
as these, of member to member in a iientence, and of verse ta
verse, which we meet with perpetually in the Psalms, lies the
chief artifice of Hebrew poetry, so far as in these times we are
capable of observing. STDnHI for nDHMT* See otheir instances
in verses 7, 12.
