My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
David cries out from the depths of terror, having endured one danger after another, and makes his whole case rest upon trust in the Lord alone. He brings before God nothing but faith, for he understands that hope placed in God cannot possibly be disappointed, and on that confidence alone he builds his prayer for deliverance.
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Commenting on Psalm 31:1-24
In this section of the Psalm he renews his prayers, urging the same pleas as at first: earnest wrestlers attempt over and over again the same means of gaining their point.
Commenting on Psalm 31:14
My times rest in His hand, not cast about like debris on a merciless sea. Providence is the soft pillow where anxious heads find rest. When escape from persecution is not His will, sustaining grace gives us something better: the power to laugh to scorn all the fury of our foes.
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