When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for 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
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back. So soon as I pray they shall fly. So surely as I cry they shall be put to the rout. The machinery of prayer is not always visible, but it is most efficient. God inclines us to pray, we cry in anguish of heart, he hears, he acts, the enemy is turned back.
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