Adam Clarke - Poéticos Jó a Cantares de Salomão

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from thy own property?” My goods or goodness, my beneficence or
bounty, is nothing unto thee. Sacrifice thou needest not, Psalm 50:8,
nor art delighted in them: but mercy thou requirest, Hosea, 6:6.
4. Then I will seek out thy receivers: “Thy saints that are in the earth.”
The family of the saints were the object of David’s bounty, and his
delight. But my liberality and charity shall extend to the saints that
are in the earth, and unto such as are excellent; “in whom is all my
delight.”
5. But as for the wicked men and idolaters, I have no delight in them.
These he points out by two characteristics: —
1. They “hasten after another god,” or endow another god. They spare
no cost, but are lavish in endowing their gods: “Israel, part with thy
jewels,” etc.
2. They offer their children to Molech: “Their drink-offerings of
BLOOD will I not offer.” On these accounts: —
1. “Their sorrows shall be multiplied.” They shall be grievously
punished.
2. I will not participate with them: “Their offerings I will not offer.”
3. They are objects of my detestation: “I will not take up their names
into my lips.”
6. He gives another reason why he should show himself so thallkflll to
God and bountiful to his saints-God’s great bounty and liberality to
him.
1. That God had given him a satisfactory portion: “The Lord is the
portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup.”
2. That God defended him in it: “Thou maintainest my lot.”
3. That it was a fair portion: “The lines are fallen to me in pleasant
places,” etc.