How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
David teaches us that when adversity presses hard, we must take hold of God's promises and use them as a shield to break through every temptation that assails us. He himself learned this in his long struggle with Saul, and the pattern holds for all who suffer distress.
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Commenting on Psalm 4:1-8
In this second division of the Psalm, we are led from the closet of prayer into the field of conflict. Remark the undaunted courage of the man of God. He allows that his enemies are great men (for such is the import of the Hebrew words translated— sons of men), but still he believes them to be foolish men, and therefore chides them, as though they were but children.
The title of the psalm acquaints us that David, having penned it by divine inspiration for the use of the church, delivered it to the chief musician, or master of the song, who (according to the divine appointment of psalmody made in his time, which he was chiefly instrumental in the establishment of) presided in that service.
Commenting on Psalm 4:1-5