The godly profess their confidence in God, and pray to be delivered from contempt.
A Song of Degrees.
Title. המעלות שׁיר Shiir hammangaloth.] Bishop Patrick thinks this psalm was composed in that time of distress, when the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh to besiege Hezekiah in Jerusalem. He observes, that Hezekiah desired Isaiah to lift up his prayer for the remnant that was left: 2 Kings 19:4.Isaiah 37:4. Accordingly we read, 2 Chronicles 32:20 that both he and Hezekiah cried unto the Lord; and we may suppose, continues the Bishop, that Isaiah lift up his eyes to heaven, and repeated the words of this psalm. Mr. Mudge remarks, however, that this psalm seems to be pronounced as by persons just come within view of the temple, and with steadfast eyes praying to be relieved from the contemptuous treatment which they endured from their insolent enemies.