10. Faith leads on to strong desire for the realization of the promise, and
hence the practical question, Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? The difficulty is plainly perceived. Petra is
strong and hard to enter: the psalmist warrior knows that he cannot enter the
city by his own power, and he therefore asks who is to help him. He asks of the
right person, even of his Lord, who has all men at his beck, and can say to
this man, “show my servant the road,” and he
will show it, or to this band, “cut your
way into the rock city,” and
they will assuredly do it. Of Edom it is written by Obadiah, “The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the
clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, who
shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and
though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith
the Lord.” David looked for his conquest to Jehovah’s infinite power, and he
looked not in vain.
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