3. For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul. Like wild
beasts they waited to make the fatal spring, but their victim used effectual
means to baffle them, for he laid the matter before the Lord. God waits to be
gracious to us and terrible towards our foes. The mighty are gathered against me. None of them were absent when a saint was to be murdered. The
men at arms who ought to have been fighting their country’s battles are instead
hunting a quiet citizen; the gigantic monarch is spending all his strength to
slay a faithful follower. Not for my transgressions, nor for my sin, O Lord. He appeals to Jehovah that he
had done no ill. His only fault was that he was too valiant and too gracious,
and was, besides, the chosen of the Lord; therefore the envious king could not
rest till he had washed his hands in the blood of his too popular rival. We
shall always find it a great thing to be innocent; if it does not carry our
cause before an earthly tribunal, it will ever prove the best of arguments in
the court of conscience, and a standing consolation when we are under
persecution. Note the repetition of his declaration of integrity. David is sure
of his innocence. He dares not repeat the plea.
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