Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Ver. 2. When I lift up my hands] An ordinary gesture in prayer, expressing faith (for they held out their open hands, as craving beggars with the palms upward, 1Ki 8:22) and helping fervency; while hands and heart went up together to God in the heavens, Lamentations 3:40. Preces fundimus, ecelum tundimus, miserieordiam extorquemus, &c. (Tertul.).
Toward thy holy oracle] Called Debhir, because therehence God spake and gave answer. Toward this (a type of Christ, the Word essential) David lifteth up his hands; that it might be as a ladder whereby his prayer might get up to heaven. The devil also, who delighteth to be God's ape, but for man's mischief, gave oracles at Delphi and elsewhere (Herod. Clio); but λοξα et mendacia, doubtful and lying; as to Croesus, Pyrrhus, others. But the eternity of Israel cannot lie, 1 Samuel 15:29; every word of God is pure, he is a shield to them that put their trust in him, Proverbs 30:5 .