This [is] my comfort in my affliction
David had his afflictions, and so has every good man; none are
without; it is the will and pleasure of God that so it should be;
and many are their afflictions, inward and outward: the word of
God is often their comfort under them, the written word, heard or
read; and especially a word of promise, powerfully applied: this
is putting underneath everlasting arms, and making their bed in
sickness. This either respects what goes before, concerning the
word of promise hoped in, or what follows: for thy word
hath quickened me;
not only had been the means of quickening him when dead in am, as
it often is the means of quickening dead sinners, being the
savour of life unto life; but of reviving his drooping spirits,
when in affliction and distress; and of quickening the graces of
the Spirit of God in him, and him to the exercise of them, when
they seemed ready to die; and to the fervent and diligent
discharge of duty, when listless and backward to it.