Verses 1–8
A song of deliverance in trouble and the overthrow of the wicked.
3. Made long their furrows] Descriptive of the persecutions Israel had endured.
6. Afore it groweth up] better, ’before it is plucked,’ or, ’before it is unsheathed,’ i.e. before it shoots into blossom.
8. Cp. Ruth 2:4.