in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
David pours out complaint and prayer together, his mind caught between distress and confidence in God's mercy. Whether he wrote this during his desperate flight to Gath or after deliverance, the psalm shows him clinging to faith even when fear drove him to feign madness, a weakness of the flesh that did not extinguish the exercise of prayer.
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Commenting on Psalm 56:1-13
In God have I put my trust. This and the former verse are evidently the chorus of the Psalm. We cannot be too careful of our faith, or see too sedulously that it is grounded on the Lord alone. I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. Faith has banished fear.
God keeps account of every weary step I took while hunted and homeless; He numbers my wanderings as a father numbers his child's sorrows. My tears are not lost, He bottles them, He writes them in His book. Not one falls unnoticed. He is afflicted in my afflictions.
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Commenting on Psalm 56:8-13