remain. lodge. The Septuagint renders it by aulizomai, the word used in Matthew 21:17. Compare Luke 21:37. See also Jeremiah 9:2.
wilderness. Compare 2 Samuel 15:28; 2 Samuel 17:16.
Selah. Connecting his despondency with his escape from the cause of it. It was not merely comfort he desired, but deliverance. See App-66.