1. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God. They
were all round the house with the warrant of authority, and a force equal to
carrying it out. He was to be taken dead or alive and carried to the slaughter.
No prowess could avail him to break the cordon of armed men, neither could any
eloquence stay the hand of his bloody persecutor. He was taken like a bird in a
net, and no friend was near to set him free. Unbelief would have suggested that
prayer was a waste of breath, but not so thinks the good man, for he makes it
his sole resort. He cries for deliverance and leaves ways and means with his
God. Defend me from them that rise up against me. Saul was a king, and
therefore sat in high places, and used all his authority to crush David; the
persecuted one therefore beseeches the Lord to set him on high also, only in
another sense. He asks to be lifted up beyond the reach of his adversary. Note
how he sets the title My God over against the word mine enemies.
This is the right method of effectually catching and quenching the fiery darts
of the enemy upon the shield of faith. God is our God, and therefore
deliverance and defense are ours.
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