4. They run and prepare themselves without my fault. They are all alive and active; they are swift to shed blood. They
prepare and use their best tactics. They come up fully armed to the attack, and
assail me with all the vigor and skill of a host about to storm a castle; and
all for no cause, but out of gratuitous malice. So quick are they to obey their
cruel master that they never stay to consider whether their errand is a good
one or not; they run at once, and buckle on the harness as they run. To be thus
gratuitously attacked is a great grief. It was a cruel and crying shame that
such a hero as David should be hounded down as if he were a monster, and beset
in his house like a wild beast in its den. Awake to help me, and behold.
When others go to sleep, keep thou watch, O God. Only look at thy servant’s sad
condition and thy hand will be sure to deliver me. We see how thorough was the
psalmist’s faith in the mercy of his Lord, for he is satisfied that if the Lord
do but look on his case it will move his active compassion.
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