Division 10 (Jod)
God acknowledged as the Creator, and justified in all His dealings with His creature.
(vv. 73-74) The Lord’s servant, acknowledging that he is the creature of God’s hands, pleads for understanding that he may learn the will of God in order to walk suitably to his Creator. The one that thus owns God, and confides in His Word, will be gladly acknowledged by all that fear the Lord.
(vv. 75-77) Moreover, he not only owns that God has fashioned him, but, he justifies God in all His dealings with him. Even in afflicting him God had acted in faithfulness. While submitting to God’s faithful dealings, he can, in the midst of affliction, count upon God’s merciful kindness to comfort him, and in His tender mercy to spare him. He can thus plead with conscious integrity, for God’s law is his delight. Time was when he went astray, and sought his own will; now he delights in God’s will.
(vs. 78) God had dealt with him faithfully for his good, but the proud had dealt perversely with him without a cause. He looks that they may be ashamed.
(vv. 79-80) He has sought the comfort of the Lord in his affliction, now he desires the sympathy of the saints― “Let those that fear thee turn unto me.” Thus encouraged he desires that his heart may be found perfect in God’s Word, that he may not, like the proud, be ashamed.