David probably wrote Psalm 13 when Saul tried to kill him. But by that time he had exercised himself a little in duty, his distemper wears off, the mists scatter, and his faith breaks out as the sun in its strength, Psalms 13:5-6 : "I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. But his enemy was about to get him. Suppose thou shouldest continue knocking twenty, nay, forty years, yet if at last, though but one hour before thou diest thy heart be opened to Christ, and he be received into thy soul, and when thou diest heaven be opened to thee, and thy soul received into it, will it not infinitely requite thee for all thy labour? It is possible to gather gold, where it may be had, with moonlight. 1 To the conductor, a song of David. Now, as exercise brings benefit to the body, so does prayer to the soul. Compiled & Edited by BST & Crosswalk Staff, Compiled & Edited by BibleStudyTools Staff, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. David would sing to God often waits until our prayers are desperate before He answers us. So, he would sing to the LORD. My enemies will be very happy when I fall. Job 10:2 ; "I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me;" as if he should say, Lord, my troubles and my sorrows are very well known... We must not cease to be solicitous to know what are the particular sins that have made him to tear us up by the roots, to throw us down as with a whirlwind; what is it that has made him so long angry with us, and so long to delay his help, that if any evil be undiscovered in our souls, we may lament it with a seasonable grief, and get a pardon for it. Having no word from the Lord, David had to listen to his own reasoning that he regarded as a poor substitute. How often do we find the holy prophet, when he first kneels down to pray, full of fears and doubts, who, before he end the duty part, grows into a sweet familiarity with God, and repose in his own spirit! Yet now he sees how God had dealt bountifully with him. 13. How now should the Christian get out of these distempers, had he not a throne of grace to resort to, where, if once his soul be in a melting frame, he (like one laid in a kindly sweat), soon breathes out the malignity of his disease, and comes into his right temper again? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? A week within prison walls is longer than a month at liberty. how long do our days appear when our soul is cast down within us! How long will You hide Your face from me? Like Joram's profane pursuivant, "This evil," saith he, "is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer?" Psalm 6:3). A hidden face is no sign of a forgetful heart. A long deep sigh is followed, as from a relieved breast, by an already much more gentle and half calm prayer; and this again by the believing joy which anticipates the certainty of being answered. for ever? How long shall I take counsel in my soul. the LORD. The Psalm cannot be referred to any especial event or period in David's history. Psalm 13is indeed a speech of disorientation. [Note: Brueggemann, p58.]. ], "His thought is dominated by one anxiety only, the anxiety that he might waver in his faith and lose confidence in God and so might provide for his adversaries the opportunity of gaining an easy victory [cf. These lines tell how the distressed psalmist turned to God in prayer, the last resource and the first, of every child of God. David does not want to die. Thomas Gataker, 1637. We may request cookies to be set on your device. "Commentary on Psalms 13:4". ), the sustaining energy is the faith expressed in, [Note: See Swindoll, pp37-46; and Ronald B. Allen, And I Will Praise Him, pp150-65. Whatever discouragements thou meetest with in thine attendance on God in ordinances, be like the English jet, fired by water, and not like our ordinary fires, quenched by it; let them add to, not diminish, thy resolution and courage; let not one repulse beat thee off; be violent, give a second storm to the kingdom of heaven. In the first case, the soul collects all its strength, and feels in earnest to call in help from above; but, in the last, the mind relaxes, and sinks into despondency.

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