Verses 1–3
Dwell - Shall constantly enjoy thy gracious and powerful presence.
Verse 4
Incline not - Suffer it not to be inclined. Heart - Keep me not only from wicked speeches, but from all evil motions of my heart. Dainties - The pleasures or advantages which they gain by their wickedness.
Verse 5
Smite - By reproofs. Break - Not hurt, but heal and greatly refresh me. Calamities - In the calamities of those righteous persons who reproved him. When they came into such calamities as those wherein he was involved he would pity them and pray for them.
Verse 6
Judges - The chief of mine enemies. Overthrown - Or, cast down headlong by thine exemplary vengeance. Hear - Hearken unto my counsels and offers which now they despise.
Verses 7–10
Our bones - Our case is almost as hopeless as of those who are dead, and whose bones are scattered in several places.