DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust
Either to the dust of death, having the sentence of it; being
almost in despair of life, upon the brink of the grave seemingly,
and free among the dead: or in a very low estate of mind, in
great dejection and humiliation, rolling himself in the dust, and
putting his mouth in it; if there might be any hope of
deliverance; but despairing of it, unless the Lord appeared; or
finding a proneness in him to the corruption of nature, the body
of sin and death, which was very powerful and prevalent,
ensnaring and captivating; and particularly to worldly things,
comparable to dust, for their lightness, emptiness, and
unprofitableness; which often have an undue influence on good
men, and to which their affections are too much glued; and which
greatly affect the exercise of grace and religious duties, and
bring a deadness upon the soul, and make the following: petition
necessary:
quicken thou me according to thy word;
such who are quickened together with Christ, and who are
quickened by his Spirit and grace, when they were dead in
trespasses and sins, have often need to be quickened again, and
to have the work of grace revived in them; which is done when
grace is drawn forth into lively exercise, and which is necessary
to the performance of duty; and this is done both by means of the
word of God, which, as it is used for the quickening dead
sinners, so for the reviving of drooping saints; see ( Psalms
119:50 ) . And according to his word of promise, who has
promised never to leave his people, nor forsake the work of his
hand, but perform it until the day of Christ; Jarchi and Kimchi
think reference is had to the promise in ( 2 Samuel
12:13 ) ; and Aben Ezra to ( Deuteronomy
32:39 ) .