1. O Lord God of my salvation. This is a hopeful title by which to address the Lord, and it has about
it the only ray of comfortable light which shines throughout the psalm. The
writer has salvation, he is sure of that, and God is the sole author of it.
While a person can see God as his Saviour, it is not altogether midnight with
him. I have cried day and night before thee. His distress had not blown
out the sparks of his prayer, but quickened them till they burned perpetually
like a furnace at full blast. His prayer was personal; it was intensely
earnest, so that it was correctly described as a cry, such as children utter to
move the pity of their parents; and it was unceasing—neither the business of
the day nor the weariness of the night had silenced it; surely such intreaties
could not be in vain. It is a good thing that sickness will not let us rest if
we spend our restlessness in prayer. Evil is transformed to good when it drives
us to prayer. Before thee is a remarkable intimation that the psalmist’s
cries had an aim and a direction towards the Lord, and were not the mere
clamors of nature, but the groanings of a gracious heart towards Jehovah, the
God of salvation.
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