SCHIN.
Psalms 119:161. Princes The rulers and prime ministers of thy kingdom; have persecuted me Whom they ought to have used their authority to protect, knowing me to be innocent and injured; but my heart standeth in awe, &c. I fear thy displeasure more than their wrath, and therefore do nothing contrary to thy word in my own vindication. I hate and abhor lying Or falsehood, in my speech and actions; all hypocrisy, deceit, and fraud; even to the degree of abhorrence and abomination; but thy law do I love I most heartily love those honest courses to which thy law directs me. Seven times a day do I praise thee That is, many times, a certain number being put for an uncertain. Because of thy righteous judgments Because I have the happiness to be acquainted with the justice and goodness of those laws whereby thou governest us.