Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
11. But the king ] The connexion is unintelligible unless the king is identified with the Psalmist, whose enemies are destroyed. Cp. Psa 61:6 ff.
that sweareth by him ] Grammatically ‘him’ may refer to the king or to God, but usage decides that God is meant. Cp. Deu 6:13; Deu 10:20; Isa 65:16. Those who invoke His Name as the attestation of their oaths are His loyal worshippers; they share the triumph of the king who is His representative.
but the mouth &c.] For the mouth &c. Those who ‘speak lies’ are those who rebel against God and His king, deluding men by false promises to join an undertaking which is false in its principle and aim. See Psa 4:2, note; Psa 62:4. They are all completely silenced.
Cp. the similar ending of Psalms 64. St Paul may have had the phrase in mind in Rom 3:19. The context shews how familiar the Psalms were to him.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
But the king shall rejoice in God – This passage, as was remarked in the Introduction to the psalm, shows that this psalm could not have been composed in the time of Saul, since the title king was not then given to David. The use of the term here in the third person does not prove that the psalm could not have been written by David himself, for he may have spoken of himself simply as the king, and all the more forcibly and properly as he was driven unjustly from his throne, and was now an exile, yet was still a king – the king. The title was his; the throne belonged to him, and not to Absalom who had driven him from it. It was not improper to allude to this fact in the manner in which it is referred to here, and to say that the king – the true, the real king – himself – should and would rejoice in God. He would find God to be his helper; and by God he would yet be restored to his throne.
Every one that sweareth by him shall glory – Everyone that sweareth to him, or maintains his oath of allegiance to him, shall be honored.
But the mouth of them that speak lies – All who have sworn falsely; all who have professed allegiance and have proved unfaithful; all those who, contrary to their oaths and their obligations, have been found in the rebellion. They shall not be permitted to exult or rejoice, but they shall be confounded and silenced. This expresses, therefore, the fullest confidence in God; the absolute belief of David that he would be again placed on his throne, and again permitted to see the power and glory of God as he had seen it in the sanctuary Psa 63:2; the belief that he would be restored to prosperity, and that his enemies would be humbled and destroyed – So it will be with all who put their trust in God. There is certain joy and triumph for them, if not in this world, at least in the world to come.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. But the king shall rejoice] David shall come to the kingdom according to the promise of God. Or, if it refer to the captivity, the blood royal shall be preserved in and by Zerubbabel till the Messiah come, who shall be David’s spiritual successor in the kingdom for ever.
That sweareth by him] It was customary to swear by the life of the king. The Egyptians swore by the life of Pharaoh; and Joseph conforms to this custom, as may be seen in the book of Genesis, Ge 42:15-16. See also 1Sa 1:26; 1Sa 17:55, and Judith 11:7. But here it may refer to GOD. He is THE KING, and swearing by his name signifies binding themselves by his authority, acknowledging his supremacy, and devoting themselves to his glory and service alone.
The Chaldee has: “And the King shall rejoice bemeymar Eloha, in the WORD of God;” or, in the WORD GOD; Meymar, WORD, being taken here substantially, as in many other places, by the Targumist.
The mouth of them that speak lies] The mouth of those who acknowledge lying vanities, that worship false gods, shall be stopped. All false religions shall be destroyed by the prevalence of the truth. For he, CHRIST, shall reign till all his enemies are put under his feet. “Thy kingdom come, and hell’s o’erpower: and to thy sceptre all subdue.” Amen and Amen.
ANALYSIS OF THE SIXTY-THIRD PSALM
The contents are, –
I. David’s ardent desire to be in the assembly of the saints, Ps 63:1. And the reasons on which this desire was founded, Ps 63:2-5.
II. That though absent from God’s ordinances, yet he forgot not his Maker, Ps 63:6-8.
III. A double prophecy. 1. What should befall his enemies, Ps 63:9-10. And, 2. What should come to himself, Ps 63:11.
I. 1. In the first part he states his confidence in God, as the foundation of his desires, contemplations, meditations, invocations, and consolations: “O God, thou art my God,” Ps 63:1.
2. Then he expresses his fervent desire and ardent affection. 1. “Early will I seek thee.” THEE, not other things. 2. “My soul thirsteth for thee,” c. There is no doubt that he wanted many things in this barren thirsty land but of this he does not complain, but of his want of God in the sanctuary.
And so he expresses himself in the following verse: He was about to see the power and glory of God in the sanctuary, as he had formerly done. He gives the reason of this: “Because thy loving-kindness is better than life,” Ps 63:3. To see thy goodness in the use of thy ordinances, I count far beyond all the blessings of life; and could I again be admitted there, these effects would follow: –
1. Praise: “My lips shall praise,” c., Ps 63:4.
2. Invocation and prayer: “I will lift up my hands,” c., Ps 63:4.
3. The satisfaction he should receive from these: “My mouth shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,” &c., Ps 63:5.
II. Though David is now in the wilderness, he does not forget his duty.
1. Even there he remembered God upon his bed and meditated, c., Ps 63:6.
2. “Because thou hast been my help therefore,” c., Ps 63:7.
3. “My soul followeth hard after thee,” &c., Ps 63:8. It is evident, therefore, that even here David was not without comfort for, 1. He meditates, and remembers what God had done for him. 2. He remembers that he had been his help and therefore he rejoices. 3. He still adheres to him, and follows hard after him for help still.
III. And now, being secure of God’s protection, he foretells, 1. What would befall his enemies; and, 2. What would come to himself.
1. To his enemies, ruin: “Those who seek after my soul, they shall go (some) into the lower parts of the earth,” the grave or hell.
Others should “fall by the sword,” lie unburied, and be devoured by wild beasts.
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Il., I. ver. 4.
“Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore,
Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.”
POPE.
2. To himself, honour and a crown: “But the king (David) shall rejoice in God.” The reason is, –
1. “Every one that swears by him,” that is who worships and fears God, an oath being put by synecdoche for the whole worship of God. See the notes.
2. “The mouth of them that speak lies,” utter blasphemies, curses, and perjuries, or pray and confess to strange gods, “shall be stopped;” they shall be ashamed and confounded, and an end be put to their iniquity by a sudden and violent death. The mouth of God’s people shall glory; but the mouth of the wicked shall be stopped, and be silent in the dust.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The king; I, who am already anointed king, and who shall be actually king, when these mine enemies are fallen by the sword. He speaks of himself in the third person, either out of modesty or out of prudence, because it was ambiguous, and might be understood either of himself or of Saul, whereby, he might avoid the envy of the expression, if this Psalm was composed before he was king. That sweareth by him; either,
1. By the king; by whom they sometimes did swear, as Gen 42:15; 2Sa 15:21. But they did also swear by some other persons, of eminent place and authority, though under the king, as 1Sa 1:26; 20:3. Nor is it likely that the psalmist would justify those kinds of oaths; this practice of swearing by ones name being accounted a part of that worship which is proper to God, both in the Old and New Testament. If this were meant of the king, it might better be rendered, that sweareth it, (for so the particle beth is sometimes used) him, as subjects used to swear homage to their prince. So the sense is, all those that shall own me for their king. Or,
2. By God, who was last mentioned, that sweareth by the name of God, to wit, in truth, and judgment, and righteousness, as it is expressed, Jer 4:2, i.e. every sincere servant and worshipper of God; swearing being oft put for the whole worship of God, whereof it is a considerable part, and swearers by God for worshippers of him, as Isa 19:18; 45:23, compared with Rom 14:11; Isa 65:16. Shall glory; shall rejoice in my deliverance and exaltation, both for their respect to the honour and service of God, which I shall advance, and for the benefits which all good men and the whole kingdom shall feel by my government; whereas in Sauls time the vilest men were exalted, and good men oppressed and persecuted, and the whole kingdom groaned under his tyranny.
That speak lies; that now make it their business to invent or spread lying and slanderous reports concerning me and others of Gods people.
Shall be stopped; I shall severely restrain and punish such wicked practices.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
11. the kingthat is, Davidhimself, and all who reverence God, “shall share a gloriouspart,” while treacherous foes shall be for ever silenced (Ps62:4).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But the king shall rejoice in God,…. Not Saul, as R. Obadiah; as if David wished him well, and that he might have reason to rejoice in God, though he sought his hurt; which sense is rejected by Abea Ezra: but either David, who speaks of himself as king, being anointed by Samuel, and who, upon the death of Saul, was so in fact; and who rejoiced, not merely at the destruction of his enemies, for he lamented the death of Saul, 2Sa 1:17; but in God, in his grace and goodness to him, and in his power and justice shown in the vengeance taken on them. Or rather, the King Messiah, who rejoiced in God because of the good of his people, their conversion and salvation, and their deliverance from their enemies, Ps 21:1;
everyone that sweareth by him shall glory; not by David, though such a form of swearing was used; see 2Sa 15:21; or, “to him”: and so describes his faithful subjects swearing allegiance to him: but rather by the Lord, in whom the king should rejoice; and designs the worshippers of him; swearing by him being sometimes put for the whole worship and service of God, De 6:13. The Heathens used to swear by their deities, and their chief was called Jupiter Horcius, because he presided over oaths x. Or else that the King Christ should rejoice in God; and intends such as believe in him and confess him; see
Isa 45:23, compared with Ro 14:11. And every such an one will glory, not in themselves, nor in anything of theirs, but in Christ, in his grace and righteousness, and in what he is unto them;
but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped; such as Saul’s courtiers, who invented and spread lies of David; but now upon the death of Saul, and David’s advancement to the throne, would be silent; their mouths being stopped either by death, or through fear: and so all the followers of antichrist, that make and believe a lie, will have their mouths stopped, when cast into the lake of fire, Re 21:8.
x Euripidis Medea, v. 170. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 5. c. 10.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
11. But the king will rejoice in God. The deliverance which David received had not been extended to him as a private person, but the welfare of the whole Church was concerned in it, as that of the body in the safety of the head, and there is therefore a propriety in his representing all the people of God as rejoicing with him. Nor can we fail to admire his holy magnanimity in not scrupling to call himself king, overwhelming as the dangers were by which he was surrounded, because he laid claim to that honor by faith, though yet denied him in actual possession. In saying that he would rejoice in God, he refers to the gratitude which he would feel; at the same time, in extolling the divine goodness shown to him, he views it as it affected the common body of the faithful. (438) As was already remarked, the safety of God’s chosen people, at that time, was inseparably connected with the reign of David and its prosperity — a figure by which it was the divine intention to teach us, that our happiness and glory depend entirely upon Christ. By those who swear in the name of the Lord, he means in general all his genuine servants. The act of solemnly calling upon God to witness and judge what we say, is one part of divine worship: hence an oath, by the figure of speech called synecdoche, is made to signify the profession of religion in general. We are not to imagine from this that God reckons all those to be his servants who make mention of his name. Many take it into their lips only to profane it by the grossest perjury; others outrage or slight it by entering into trifling and unnecessary oaths; and hypocrites are chargeable with wickedly abusing it. But those whom David refers to are such as swear by the Lord, considerately and with reverence, and whose hearts respond to what they declare. This appears more clearly from the contrast which follows in the verse, where he opposes those who swear by the name of God to those who speak lies, understanding by that term, not only treacherous and deceitful men, but men who profane the name of God by falsehoods of a sacrilegious kind.
(438) “ Sed extollit Dei gratiam, quia ad piorum omnium conservationem pertineat.” — Lat. “ Mais il exalte et magnifie la grace de Dieu envers in d’autant qu’elle s’etendoit a la conservation de tous les fideles.” — Fr.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(11) Sweareth by him.This is explained as meaning, swear allegiance to him as the king, on the analogy of Zep. 1:5. And this suits the context. On the other hand, the natural way to understand the phrase, swear by or in him, is to refer it to the only oath allowed to the Israelite, by the name of Jehovah (Deu. 6:13; Isa. 65:16; comp. Amo. 8:14), in which case we must explain by Deu. 10:20-21, Swear by his (Jehovahs) name; He is thy praise. Those who are loyal to Jehovah, who appeal to Him in all troubles, will find this promise true, They shall glory, while the unfaithful and false, not daring to make the solemn appeal, will have their mouth stopped. (Comp. Rom. 3:19.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. But king “King,” according to the date given to the psalm, cannot here mean David, who never assumed that title during the life of Saul, though afterwards he thus spoke of himself in the third person, Psa 21:1; Psa 21:7; Psa 61:6. It can, therefore, apply to none but Saul, and this eminently suits the unvarying tenor of David’s loyalty; his high conceptions of the theocracy; his marvellous reverence for Saul as the Lord’s anointed; his constant refusal to take Saul’s life, when in two instances he could have done it with a single stroke; his uniform distinction between Saul as rightful sovereign and those lying flatterers who led him astray; and the unaffected lamentation and inimitable elegy upon his death. It further illustrates his forgiving piety.
Every one that sweareth by him Whether the pronoun refers to “God,” or to “king,” in the preceding clause, may be grammatically indifferent; but it may be urged against the latter, and in favour of the former, that though in a heathen country it might pass as an allowable custom to swear by the king, (see Gen 42:15,) the Hebrews were strictly forbidden to swear by any but God. Deu 6:13; Deu 10:20; Isa 65:16. What the prophet, Isa 45:23, calls “swearing,” the apostle, Rom 14:11, calls “confessing.” It was a religious acknowledgment of the supremacy of God.
But the mouth of them that speak lies This, with the preceding line, forms an antithetic parallelism, falsehood being opposed to truthful swearing in God’s name, and the rejoicing, or boasting in God to the shutting up the mouths of those who “speak lies.” This confirms the sense given of the passage.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The Consequence Of God’s Judgment On Those Who Rebel Against The King Will Be That The King Will Rejoice In God, And Those Who Are Faithful To Their Oaths Of Loyalty Sworn In God’s Name Will Glory ( Psa 63:11 ).
This final verse fits admirably into the story of the rebellion of Absalom, who by deceit and half truths sought to overthrow David. Deeply aware of how Absalom and his supporters have maligned him, David is confident that their mouths will be stopped, whilst he, the king, being delivered, will rejoice in God, and all his loyal supporters will rejoice with him, and glory in God’s deliverance.
Psa 63:11
‘But the king will rejoice in God,
Every one who swears by him will glory,
For the mouth of those who speak lies,
Will be stopped.’
David has confidence that God will deliver him, with the consequence that he will rejoice in God. Similarly those who have made their oaths of loyalty to him in God’s Name, and have abided by them, will have cause to glory, for they will see him vindicated. In contrast, rather than rejoicing and glorying, the mouths of those who speak lies and deceive others will be stopped. They will have no cause to rejoice and glory.
The whole Psalm is a reminder of God’s loyalty to those who are loyal to Him. And it is a reminder that just as David’s followers were to be loyal to their anointed king, so are we to be loyal to great David’s Greater Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Psa 63:11. But the king shall rejoice David was king by designation, and anointed when he was in the wilderness of Judah; but had not then taken the title, and was not advanced to the throne. Hence M. Le Clerc and others think that this psalm could not be written by him when he sojourned in the wilderness. But I apprehend that this objection is but of little force; for all that he affirms is, that when his enemies shall be destroyed, then the king shall rejoice in God; speaking of himself undoubtedly, though not of what he now was, but should then be when God had delivered him from those who sought his life. Every one that swears by him shall glory; i.e. Who invokes his name, worships him, and makes him the object of religious reverence and fear; all which is implied in swearing, as an oath is an immediate appeal and solemn act of worship to God. Mudge renders the latter part of the verse thus: Every one that sweareth by him shall glory; whereas the mouth of them who pronounce a lie shall be stopped: for he observes judiciously, that the two clauses of the verse seem to be opposed to each other: they that swore by the God of Israel, to those who pronounced a lie, or named the false gods. The former should find occasion for glorifying, whereas the mouth of the other should be stopped.
REFLECTIONS.1st, Wherever David was, he found his heart in tune for praise; a wilderness shall echo with his songs, since thither divine Providence hath led him: the children of God should learn of him, even though sorrowful, to be always rejoicing, and, when most desolate and solitary, to make melody still in their hearts unto God.
1. The ground of all his comfort was this, O God, thou art my God: a sense of an interest in his love and favour, can make a prison a palace, a wilderness a paradise.
2. He resolves to cleave to God, and longs for his return to the sanctuary, from which at present he suffered an irksome banishment. Early will I seek thee; here, though destitute of public ordinances, in private prayer and secret meditation he would exercise himself, beginning with the dawn of day; my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, with eager and importunate desire, in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is: no waters of the sanctuary to refresh and comfort his soul; therefore he pants for the courts of God’s tabernacle, To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary; to enjoy some sweet manifestations of divine favour where he was, as he had formerly been favoured with when engaged in the worship of the sanctuary, and thither he wishes to return. Note; (1.) This world is a barren land, nothing in it can satisfy the longings of the soul. God alone is the believer’s all-sufficient portion. (2.) The more we are convinced of the emptiness of the creature, the more we should fly to the fulness of God. (3.) They who know the blessings of public ordinances, will feelingly regret the want of them. (4.) Wherever we are, a throne of grace is open; and, if we diligently seek the Lord, we may find the same comfortable presence of God under a tree or in a mountain, as in the midst of the congregation.
2nd, His desires are answered, and prayers soon exchanged for joyful praises.
1. Because thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee; though life is a blessing, yet without God’s love, in the midst of life we are in death; we may then only be truly said to live, when, quickened by his Spirit, our souls live by him and for him: in this case even death becomes our privilege, and removal from earth is our translation to the life of eternity.
2. He is determined to continue his praise as long as his being: thus, as he had begun, he purposes to persevere, and lift up his hands incessantly below in thanksgiving, till he should join above the everlasting songs of saints and angels. Note; They who expect to spend eternity in God’s praise, will begin the pleasing service here, and learn in every state, condition, and circumstance, to give thanks.
3. He promises himself great delight in his service; this work of praise shall be his present reward. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; the most delicious viands to the taste would not be so grateful, as to his soul this happy communion with God, while his mouth praised him with joyful lips. Note; There is a complacence and inward satisfaction to be enjoyed in God’s love and service, compared with which the highest gratifications of sense are poor and insipid.
4. By night as well as day, on this pleasing subject his thoughts continually dwelt. When I remember thee upon my bed; lying down to rest, and waking up in the morning, God was last and first in his thoughts; and meditate on thee in the night-watches; when his eyes were kept waking that he could not sleep, he employed the hours of darkness in contemplation, which more than recompensed the lost repose.
3rdly, Resolved to praise, he wanted not abundant matter for his song.
His experience of past support, and confidence of present help, afforded cause of rejoicing. Thou hast been my help, and art willing to save me to the uttermost, therefore under the shadow of thy wings, where, as the chickens shelter themselves from danger, and are refreshed with the vital warmth, my soul is comfortably lodged, will I rejoice. My soul followeth hard after thee, in prayer, meditation, and every means of grace within his power: thy right hand upholdeth me, by which alone I am supported and strengthened, to run and not be weary, and to walk and not be faint. Note; (1.) They who would cleave to God faithfully, are called upon to follow hard after him in the means of grace and the path of duty. (2.) Our strength for the one or other is not in ourselves but from him, without which our feet would quickly stumble, our hearts grow dead, and our lips be sealed up in silence, and forget to pray or praise.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
How very beautifully the Psalm concludes. Jehovah’s King, Jehovah’s Anointed, must reign: all enemies must be subdued. Jehovah himself is engaged to this, and the Messiah’s everlasting kingdom must prevail. And as this will be to the eternal glory of Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; so will it be to the joy of the Adonai, the Mediator, the glorious Head of his Church, and to all his people. But the triumphs of the redeemed in Jesus will be accompanied with the final and complete overthrow of all the enemies of God and of his Christ; for they shall fall to rise no more; every mouth of them that speak lies will be stopped while every tongue of the redeemed will confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
REFLECTIONS
MY soul! do not dismiss thine attention to this precious portion of God’s word, until thou hast gathered from it, as the bee from the sweetest flower, the many divine instructions it holds forth to thy meditation. Behold in it what an entertainment of the richest provision the Lord can afford and satisfy his redeemed with, even in a wilderness situation, when he can spread before them so plentiful a table as his own divine presence alone furnisheth. Surely here may be seen to the full the truth of that scripture, that he maketh the wilderness to blossom as a rose. What though thou art in a wilderness state, and surrounded with wilderness dispensations, if Jesus be with thee, and Jesus be thy portion; if thou canst call him thy God, and the God of thy mercies, will he not be to thee all that thou canst need, and all that thou canst desire? Pause, my soul, and count over thy right and claim to this covenant God in Christ. Art thou not his by creation, by redemption, by the conquests of his grace, the purchase of Jesus’s blood, and the right of the Father’s gift to his dear Son? And is not God the Father thy Father in Christ Jesus, by adoption and by grace? Is not Jesus thine by his betrothing thee to himself, and by the voluntary surrender of thyself to him in a oneness never to be dissolved? Hath not the Holy Ghost given thee the earnest of Jesus’s love, and manifested that all he hath is thine, in taking of the things of Jesus and showing them to thee? Oh! then live up to thine high privileges. See to it, day by day, that the devout breathings of this Psalm speak thy very language. Do thou, my soul, be seeding forth an earnest cry for the God of thy life, and of thy salvation. Tell Jesus, that nothing can satisfy thy longings and thy thirstings but himself. Tell him that his ordinances are sweet, and the courts of his house are lovely; but unless the King be there, and unless thou canst hold the King in the galleries, there is nothing can give thee joy. Oh! thou holy One, thou lovely One, thou Lord our righteousness! let my desire be increasing every hour towards thee; let my love be always upon thee; let all my enjoyment be in thee, all my satisfaction from thee; and be thou the all in all to me, while I remain in the present wilderness-state, until thou shalt bring me home to the everlasting enjoyment of thyself forever. Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Ver. 11. But the king shall rejoice in God ] i.e. I shall, who am anointed and appointed king after Saul, and therefore doubt not to speak thus of myself, as if I were king already. Wicked men praesumendo sperant, et sperando pereunt, hope groundlessly, and perish by their presumption; but true believers trust God upon his bare word, and that against sense in things invisible, and against reason in things incredible, and according to their faith so is it unto them.
Every one that sweareth by him shall glory
But the mouth of them that speak lies
Shall be stopped
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
To the chief Musician. See App-64.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
But: etc. David shall come to the kingdom according to the promise of God.
the king: Psa 2:6, Psa 21:1, 1Sa 23:17, 1Sa 24:20
sweareth: Deu 6:13, Isa 19:18, Isa 45:23, Isa 65:16, Zep 1:5, Heb 6:13
the mouth: Psa 31:18, Rom 3:19, Tit 1:10, Tit 1:11
Reciprocal: Deu 10:20 – swear 2Ki 5:26 – he said Job 5:16 – and Psa 4:2 – leasing Psa 107:42 – iniquity Pro 10:31 – the froward Isa 48:1 – which swear
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 63:11. But the king shall rejoice in God I, who am anointed to be king, and who shall actually be king when these my enemies are fallen by the sword. Every one that sweareth by him By the name of God, namely, in truth, and judgment, and righteousness, as it is expressed Jer 4:2, that is, every sincere servant and worshipper of God that invokes his name, and makes him the object of his religious reverence and fear: all which is implied in swearing by him, as an oath taken, as in the presence of God, is an immediate appeal and solemn act of worship to him. Accordingly, swearing is often put for the whole worship of God, and swearers by him, for worshippers of him. See Isa 45:23, compared with Rom 14:16; Isa 65:16. Shall glory Shall rejoice in my deliverance and exaltation, both for their respect for the honour and service of God, which I shall advance, and for the benefits which all good men and the whole kingdom shall receive by my government: whereas, in Sauls time, the vilest men were exalted, good men oppressed and persecuted, and the whole kingdom groaned under his tyranny. But the mouth of them that speak lies That now make it their business to invent or spread slanderous reports concerning me and others of Gods people; shall be stopped They shall be so silenced that they shall not have a word to say for themselves. He may mean also, that when he should be in power, he would severely restrain and punish such wicked practices. Apply this to Christs enemies. Those that speak lies against him, who pervert the right ways of the Lord, and speak ill of his holy religion, their mouths will be stopped too, when the Lord shall come to reckon for all the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Christs second coming will be the everlasting triumph of all his faithful friends and followers, who may therefore now triumph in the believing hopes of it.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that {g} sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
(g) All who swear by God correctly or profess him will rejoice in this worthy king.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
Instead of anticipating destruction as the Lord’s enemies could, David confidently rejoiced. Everyone who sides with God, as David did, can do the same. Glorying is the equivalent of rejoicing.
Meditation on the person and works of God can bring refreshment and invigoration to any believer. Meditation on God fills a basic need in the heart of every person, as basic a need as food and drink. It not only satisfies the believer but overflows in praise, making him or her a blessing to others.