Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 22:9

9. But thou art he that took me out of the Womb ; thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers breasts .

This is noted as an Effect of God's wonderful and gracious Providence. And although this be a Mercy which God grants to all mankind, yet it may well be alledged here, partly in way of gratitude for this great, though common Mercy; nothing being more reasonable and usual than for David and other holy men to praise God for such Blessings; and partly as an Argument to encourage himself, to expect and to prevail with God, to grant him the Deliverance which now he desires, because he hath formerly delivered him: This being a very common Argument, See 1 Sam. 17. 37. 2 Cor. 1. 10. But this is applicable to Christ in a singular manner, not, as a late learned Writer takes it, that God separated him from the Womb, but that God did bring him out (as the word properly signifies) of the Womb, to wit, immediately and by himself, and without the help of any Man, by the miraculous Operation of the Holy Ghost, which made him there, or else he could never have been brought thence,

Or, Trust: (i. e.) Thou didst give me sufficient ground for Hope and Trust, if I had then been capable of acting that Grace, because of thy wonderful and watchful Care over me, in that weak and helpless State. Which was eminently true of Christ, whom God so miraculously preserved and provided for in his Infancy; the History whereof we read, Mat. 2. It is not strange that Hope is figuratively ascribed to Infants, seeing even the Brute-Creatures are said to Hope, Rom. 8. 20. and to wait and Cry to God, Psal. 145. 15. and 147. 9.

(i. e.) When I was a sucking Child. Which may be properly understood.

Marginal references: Or, if be [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] him.