O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
Ver. 13. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us.] Or, Have mastered us. Oh that men were so sensible of their spiritual servitude as thus to complain thereof to Jesus Christ! But, alas! they do nothing less for the most part, delighting on the devil's drudgery, which they count the only liberty, and dancing, as it were, to hell in their bolts.
Will we make mention of thy name.] For which end we would not be "the servants of men," much less the slaves of Satan, that basest of slaves, but the "freemen of Christ." 1Co 7:22 "Where the spirit is, there is liberty"; 2Co 3:17 and "if the Son set us free, we shall be free indeed." Joh 8:36