Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
David, stripped of his kingdom and hunted by his own son, had every reason to despair, yet he clung to God's promise against mockery and death itself. He makes no mention of his sins here, his adultery and the blood of Uriah, which means this psalm captures only one part of his prayer; the full anguish of God's punishment for those crimes came first.
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Commenting on Psalm 3:1-8
This verse contains the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine. Search Scripture through, and you must, if you read it with a candid mind, be persuaded that the doctrine of salvation by grace alone is the great doctrine of the word of God: "Salvation belongeth unto the Lord." This is a point concerning which we are daily fighting.
In every difficulty David had been driven to his knees, crying to God with his whole voice, and God had always answered him from His holy mountain. When care and grief turn us to earnest prayer, not mere sound but real fervency of heart, God takes notice and accounts it to us.
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Commenting on Psalm 3:4-8