Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
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
These enemies have an appetite for blood that never ceases; they hunt in packs like wolves and will not relent until they have quite devoured him. But here is the remedy: invoke the Most High, who dwells in a place higher than any throne from which his proudest foes can attack.
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David threw himself into God's hands even though fear and folly had thrown him into the Philistines'. He was like a silent dove, driven from his nest, mourning and melancholy yet patient, murmuring neither against God nor against those who troubled him, a pattern for all the afflicted.
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Commenting on Psalm 56:1-7