I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune
with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search (Ps. 77:6)
By his song he denotes the exercise of thanksgiving
in which he had engaged during the time of his prosperity.
There is no remedy better adapted for healing our sorrows,
than this; but Satan often craftily suggests to our thoughts the benefits of
God, that the very feeling of the want of them may inflict upon our minds a
deeper wound. It is, therefore, highly probable, that the prophet was pierced
with bitter pangs when he compared the joy experienced by him in time past with
the calamities which he was presently suffering.
He expressly mentions the night; because, when we are
then alone by ourselves, and withdrawn from the society and presence of men, it
engenders in the mind more cares and thoughts than are experienced during the
day. What is added immediately after with respect to communing with his own
heart, is to the same effect. Solitude has an influence in leading men to
retire within their own minds, to examine themselves thoroughly, and to speak
to themselves freely and in good earnest, when no created being is with them to
impose a restraint by his presence. (Commentaries)
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