9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord,for I am in trouble. Now, the man of God comes
to a particular and minute description of his sorrowful case. He unburdens his
heart. This first sentence pithily comprehends all that follows; it is the text
for his lamenting discourse. Misery moves mercy—no more reasoning is needed. Havemercy is the prayer; the argument is as prevalent as it is plain and
personal, I am in trouble. Mine eye is consumed with grief. Dim and
sunken eyes are plain indications of failing health. Tears draw their salt from
our strength, and floods of them are very apt to consume the source from which
they spring. God would have us tell him the symptoms of our disease, not for
his information, but to show our sense of need. Yea, my soul and my belly
(or body). Soul and body are so intimately united that one cannot
decline without the other feeling it. We, in these days, are not strangers to
the double sinking which David describes; we have been faint with physical
suffering, and distracted with mental distress: when two such seas meet, it is
well for us that the Pilot at the helm is at home in the midst of the
waterfloods, and makes storms to become the triumph of his art.
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