Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge.
"Preserve me, " keep, or save me, or as Horsley thinks, "guard me, "even as bodyguards surround their monarch, or as shepherds protect their flocks. Tempted in all points like as we are, the manhood of Jesus needed to be preserved from the power of evil; and though in itself pure, the Lord Jesus did not confide in that purity of nature, but as an...
The preceding Psalm closed with the words לא ימּוט; this word of promise is repeated in Psa 16:8 as an utterance of faith in the mouth of David. We are here confronted by a pattern of the unchangeable believing confidence of a friend of God; for the writer of Psa 16:1-11 is in danger of death, as is to be inferred from the prayer expressed...
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. (a) He shows that we cannot call on God unless we trust in him.