THIS psalm is mad up of short ejaculatory prayers and praises and profesions of obedienc, and it is uncertain to what tim and what particular acts of sin and disobedienc the psalmist refers, when he mentions his repentanc and maks profesion of new obedience.  This darknes sems to rest on the text, and thar is nothing in the context that wil help to a determination whether he had referenc to his conversion or to som reformatiion from eror afterward.  "I thot on my ways and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies."

We very naturaly suppos that this was a reflection on his life, particularly the exercises of his mind and the resolutions he made when he turned from the lov of vicked ways to the state of lov to holy things -- to the tim of his conviction of sin and his conversion to holy desires and a lov of the holy scriptures.  This opinion of the pasage is strengthened when we observ that, when the psalmist speaks of his being recovered from a backsliden stat, he uses the word returned, and to say of a new convert to rightousnes that he returned to the testimonies of the Lord, is using language improperly; but to say that he has turned unto the Lord, is saying the truth with propriety; and this is the mod of expresion in the text:  "I turned my feet unto Thy testimonies."  And another stil:  The translators of the holy scripturs found a likenes of expresion and ideas in the parabl of the prodigal son in the gospels, and has noticed the likenes of ideas in the two ways of expresion:  "I thot on my ways," and "when he came to himself he said: "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger." And the same liknes obtains farther in the text, it stands: "and turned my fet unto Thy testimonies;" in the parable