This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
David celebrates a signal deliverance: when he fled to King Achish of Gath, whom he reckoned his deadliest enemy after Saul, he feigned madness to escape certain death. That God granted him escape contrary to all expectation shows a memorable instance of His favor, fit for the instruction of the whole Church.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-22
This poor man cried. Here he returns to his own case. He was poor indeed, and so utterly friendless that his life was in great jeopardy; but he cried in his heart to the protector of his people and found relief.
We cannot justify David's dissimulation; it ill became an honest man to feign himself a fool and madman. Yet what strikes us is the composure of his spirit even in that danger: his heart was so fixed, trusting in God, that he penned this excellent psalm with all the marks of a calm, sedate spirit.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-10