4. My heart is sore pained within me. His
inmost soul was touched, and a wounded spirit who can bear? If this were
written when David was attacked by his own favorite son, and ignominiously
driven from his capital, he had reason enough for using these expressions. And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. He felt like one suddenly
surrounded with the glooms of the shadow of death, upon whom the eternal night
suddenly descends. Within and without he was afflicted, and his chief terror
seemed to come from above, for he uses the expression fallen upon me. He
felt that he was as good as dead. The inmost center of his nature was moved
with dismay. Think of our Lord in the garden, with his “soul exceeding sorrowful even unto death,” and you have a parallel to the griefs of the psalmist. Perhaps if you
have not yet trodden this gloomy way you will soon; then be sure to mark the
footprints of the Lord in this miry part of the road.
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