The Lord is our hope in the face of calamity; He protects us from our enemies. But how can we turn to Him when our conscience is troubled?...
The Lord is our hope in the face of calamity; He protects us from our enemies. But how can we turn to Him when our conscience is troubled?
Someone who is unsure of having the right to count on the Lord's mercy doubts whether their good deeds are sufficient for justification. Anyone who asks God to judge according to truth must be prepared for the fact that God sees the truth more deeply than any of us. We would like the way we are treated to be based on our settled ideas of justice. But God may not find in the person crying out to Him the righteousness He wants to see in each of us. Therefore, when I denounce an ungodly enemy, the denunciation may return to me, as I repeat the psalmist's words while forgetting my own lawlessness.
But precisely because truth is in the Lord's hands and before His eyes, we can hope for the justice of His judgment.
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7:2 Lest - Mine enemy. Tear - Out of my body.
7:3 Hands - Which Cush and others falsely lay to my charge.Iniquity - In my actions.
7:4 Deliver - When it was in my power to destroy him, as Psa 24:2-6.
7:6 Lift up - Glorify thyself, and shew thyself to be above them.Commanded - To execute that righteous sentence, which thou hast commanded, appointed, and declared by thy prophet Samuel.
7:7 Compass - They will come from all parts to worship thee, and offer to thee praises and sacrifices. High - To thy tribunal, to sit there and judge my cause. An allusion to earthly tribunals, which generally are set up on high above the people.
7:9 O - Put a stop to their wicked practices.
7:11 Every day - Even then, when his providence seems to favour them, and they are most secure and confident.
7:12 He will - God will hasten, and speedily execute his judgments upon him.
7:13 Him - For the wicked. Ordaineth - Designs or fits for this very use. Of all sinners, persecutors are set up as the fairest marks of Divine wrath. They set God at defiance but cannot set themselves out of the reach of his judgments.
7:14 Travelleth - This metaphor denotes his deep design, and vigorous endeavours for doing mischief, and his restlessness and pain 'till he have accomplished it.