I cried unto him with my mouth
Crying designs prayer, and supposes distress; and crying with the
mouth denotes vocal, ardent, and fervent prayer;
and he was extolled with my tongue:
at the same time the psalmist prayed for deliverance out of his
distresses, he praised God for the mercies he had received: and
did, as the Apostle Paul directs, make known his requests with
thanksgiving, ( Philippians
4:6 ) ; or "he was exalted under my tongue" F7; that
is, in his heart, as some interpret it; his heart and his mouth
went together; and out of the abundance of his heart his tongue
spoke of the goodness, kindness, and mercy of God to him. The
Targum is,
``and his promise was under my tongue;''and so he was very different from a wicked man, who keeps iniquity under his tongue, as a sweet morsel, ( Job 20:12 ) .