Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. Make haste to help me - I am dying; save, Lord, or I perish. Whoever carefuIly reads over this Psalm will see what a grievous and bitter thing it is to sin against the Lord, and especially to sin after having known his mercy, and after having escaped from the corruption that is in the world. Reader, be on thy guard; a life of righteousness may be lost by giving way to a moment's temptation, and a fair character sullied for ever! Let him that most assuredly standeth take heed lest he fall.
'Tis but a grain of sweet that one can sow,
To reap a harvest of wide-wasting wo.
Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].