I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. The connection of this clause with the preceding context has greatly perplexed critics. Some maintain that it is an interpolation; but its genuineness is attested by the most ancient MSS. and versions. Various hypotheses have been proposed for explaining it, (Sherlock's 'Discourses,' 6:) The best seems to be that of Calvin (in 'Genesin, book 1.'), who thinks that Jacob, foreseeing, with the penetrating eye of a prophet, the many troubles, dangers, and disasters brought on his posterity generally, and on Dan in particular, by their own backslidings or apostasy, felt his mind so distressed, and almost overwhelmed by the prospect, that for his relief and comfort he betakes himself to the divine promises, in the ultimate fulfillment of which he expressed his believing confidence. The Septuagint strangely applies this verse to the rider allusively spoken of, Genesis 49:17 [kai peseitai ho hippeus eis ta opisoo, teen sooteerian perimenoon kuriou].