CHAPTER 7

A PSALM OF DAVID: A PETITION FOR PROTECTION

¹O Lord my God, in You do I put my trust: save me from all them who persecute me, and deliver me (David more than likely wrote this Psalm [song] while Saul was attempting to kill him; however, in a greater way, this Psalm refers to the suffering of the Messiah in sympathy with the elect remnant of Israel under the persecution of the Antichrist.

I think it would be obvious in all of these Psalms written by David that his personal experiences and moral character were much below the language of the Psalm. It is, therefore, prophetic of the Messiah):

²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver (all of this answers to these some twenty-one attempts of Saul to kill David [I Sam. 18:1-26:2]).

³O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands (David was accused by Saul of seeking the kingdom and the opportunity to kill the king; David denies these charges here before God, offering to lay down his life if such be true);

⁴If I have reward evil unto him who was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him who without cause is my enemy [David denies that he has either injured a friend or requited evil to a foe]:)

⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the Earth, and lay my honour in the dust. Selah.

⁶Arise, O LORD, in Your anger, lift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that You have commanded (in other words, Lord, I desperately need Your help).

⁷So shall the congregation of the people compass You about: for their sakes therefore return You on high (Lord, come down and do something, and then return to Heaven).

⁸The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me (our Faith in Christ gives us His Righteousness and His Integrity).

⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins (it is not so much the removal of the wicked, but the removal of their wickedness, that David desires).

¹⁰My defence is of God, Who saves the upright in heart (one can be upright in heart only by trust in Christ!).

¹¹God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day (Gods Anger continues against the wicked as long as their wickedness continues [I Pet. 4:17]).

¹²If he turn not, He will whet His sword; He has bent His Bow, and made it ready (every new transgression sets a fresh edge to Gods sword).

¹³He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; He ordains His arrows against the persecutors (what one sows, one will reap [Gal. 6:7]).

¹⁴Behold, he (the persecutors) travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood (in particular, it pictures Saul and, in general, the Antichrist).

¹⁵He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made (the fall of both Saul and the Antichrist).

¹⁶His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate (this was fulfilled in Saul when he died fighting the Philistines, and will be fulfilled in particular when the Antichrist is subdued by Christ at the Second Coming [Ezek., Chpts. 3839]).

¹⁷I will praise the LORD according to His Righteousness: and will sing praise to the Name of the LORD Most High (the phrase, Most High, in the Hebrew, is Elyon, which means Possessor of Heaven and Earth; the dispenser of Gods Blessings in the Earth; it is one of the titles of the Messiah as Most High over all the Earth).