Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 63:11

11. But the king shall rejoyce in God, every one that sweareth by him : shall glory : but the mouth of them that speak lyes , shall be stopped .

I who am already anointed King, and who shall be actually King, when these mine Enemies are fallen by the Sword. He speaks of himself in the third Person, either out of Modesty; or out of Prudence, because it was Ambiguous, and might be understood; Either of himself, or of Soul, whereby he might avoid the Envy of the Expression; if this Psalm was Composed before he was King.

Either, 1. By the King; by whom they sometimes did swear, as Gen. 42. 15. 2 Sam. 15. 21. But they did also swear by some other Persons, of Eminent Place and Authority, though under the King, as 1 Sam. 1. 26. and 20. 3. Nor is it likely, that the Psalmist would justifie those kinds of Oaths, this Practise of swearing by ones Name, being Accounted a part of that Worship which is proper to God, both in the Old and New Testament. If this were meant of the King, it might better be rendred, that sweareth to (for so the Particle Beth is sometimes used) him, as Subjects used to swear Homage to their Prince. So the Sence is: All those that shall own me for their King. Or, 2. By God, who was last mentioned, that sweareth by the Name of God, to wit, in Truth, and Iudgment, and Righteousness, as it is expressed, I[illegible: 1+ letters]r 4. 2. (i. e.) Every sincere Servant and Worshipper of God; Swearing, being oft put for the whole Worship of God, whereof it is a Considerable part, and Sw[illegible: 1+ letters]arers by God for Worshippers of him, as Isa. 19. 18. and 45. 23. Compared with Rom. 14. 11. and Isa. 65. 16.

Shall rejoyce in my Deliverance and Exaltation, both for their Respect to the Honour and Service of God, which I shall advance, and for the Benefits which all good Men, and the whole Kingdom shall feel by my Government, whereas in Saul's time the vilest Men were exalted, and good Men oppressed and Persecuted, and the whole Kingdom Groaned under his Tyranny.

That now make it their Business to invent or spread lying and slanderous Reports, concerning me and others of God's People.

I shall severely restrain and punish such wicked Practises.