Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 4:1

1. HEar me when I call O God of my righteousness : thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress, have mercy upon me and hear my prayer.

Either the witness and defender of my righteous cause: Or, from whom I expect that righteous judgment and decision of my cause, which I cannot obtain from mine Enemies, who load me and my cause with mani[illegible: 1+ letters]old Injuries and Calumnies. Or, O my righteous God. Or, O God of my mercy; which title is given to God elsewhere, as Psal. 59. 10, 17, whereas this title, O God of my righteousness, is not given to God in any other place of Scripture. Psal. 59. 10, 17. O God, to whose mercy I owe all that I have or hope for: which was a very fit and powerful Argument in Prayer, and very agreeable to the following words, in which there is an acknowledgment of Gods former Mercies, and a petition for mercy. And so this and other words in Hebrew and Greek which properly signify righteousness, are oft used for mercy or kindness, as Isa. 58. 8. Psal. 31. 1. and 36. 10. 2. Cor. 9. 9. and in many other places.

(i. e.) Freed me from my former straits and troubles. So he urgeth God and strengtheneth his own Faith with his former Experiences.

Thou maist justly destroy me for my many and great sins, and therefore I flee from thy Justice to thy Mercy, on which all my hopes are grounded.

Marginal references: Psal. 25. [illegible: 1+ letters]. & 59. 10, 17. & 109. 1.; Or, be [illegible: 1 word] to me.