Psalms 71:14-16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But I will hope continually Although in the greatest straits and difficulties; and will yet praise thee more and more For which I know thou wilt yet give me abundant occasion. My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness Thy truth, justice, and mercy, manifested in all thy dispensations toward me; and thy salvation Temporal and spiritual, wrought out for me; all the day long It shall be the subject of all my songs, and my continual employment to publish it abroad. For I know not the number thereof Of the instances in which thou hast manifested thy righteousness, that is, thy mercy and truth in delivering me. I will go I will not sit down in despair, but I will go on in my work and warfare; in the strength of the Lord God Relying, not on any strength of my own, or any efforts I can make, but disclaiming my own sufficiency, and depending on God only as all-sufficient: looking to and trusting in his providence and grace. Observe, reader, we must always go about God's work in his strength, having our eyes up unto him, to work in us both to will and to do. I will make mention of thy righteousness Of thy mercy and goodness; or, rather, of thy faithfulness in making good all thy promises, of thy equity in all thy dispensations, and of thy kindness to thy people that trust in thee. Of this righteousness, including these thy perfections, I will make mention, partly to praise and celebrate it, and partly to support and comfort myself with the remembrance of it, and what it implies.