As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
The old English wording connected with the verse uses hell in the older sense of the covered or unseen place, meaning the grave or possibly the state of death, not a place of conscious perpetual torment, and the word is now translated grave. Prayer is calling upon God. In distress David calls upon God with confidence that the Lord will save him, and the following verses show God hearing his prayer and delivering him in peace from the battle even though many are against him, a deliverance connected with having many on his side. In trials, troubles, and sore temptations, a person should call upon God rather than stop praying, trusting that the Lord will save them.
Calling on God is a plea for deliverance that holds together God's justice against incorrigible wrongdoers and his mercy and loving-kindness, since the psalm presents human wickedness, God's just anger against sin and the punishment of incorrigible wrongdoers, while also showing his mercy and loving-kindness. The verse gives personal experience of calling on God and being delivered, and together with Psalms 54 and 56 it fittingly concludes the account of God's judgments on Damascus, Egypt, Philistia, Tyre and the whole earth, an experience that should take strong hold on the hearts of devout readers. In prophetic vision the verse presents Christ calling on God for help amid the life-and-death struggles and suffering he endured, showing his dependence on God and his appeal for deliverance.
The verse shows Christ in his humiliation as man's substitute crying to God for rescue, having taken man's weaknesses, infirmities and sins upon himself so fully as to identify himself with man in all failings and sufferings that he felt brought very low as worm Jacob bearing Jacob's sins, pouring out his soul in agony for God's help while pleading the promises God made concerning Jacob, revealing the greatness of his sacrifice. A person may call upon God with confidence that the Lord hears and saves, and this assurance supports prayer for God to revive his people. The verse expresses a personal appeal to God in confidence that the Lord will save, presented as a prayer for a child seeking a pure heart and God's friendship.
The old English wording connected with the verse uses hell in the older sense of the covered or unseen place, meaning the grave or possibly the state of death, not a place of conscious perpetual torment, and the word is now translated grave. Prayer is calling upon God. In distress David calls upon God with confidence that the Lord will save him, and the following verses show God hearing his prayer and delivering him in peace from the battle even though many are against him, a deliverance connected with having many on his side. In trials, troubles, and sore temptations, a person should call upon God rather than stop praying, trusting that the Lord will save them.
Calling on God is a plea for deliverance that holds together God's justice against incorrigible wrongdoers and his mercy and loving-kindness, since the psalm presents human wickedness, God's just anger against sin and the punishment of incorrigible wrongdoers, while also showing his mercy and loving-kindness. The verse gives personal experience of calling on God and being delivered, and together with Psalms 54 and 56 it fittingly concludes the account of God's judgments on Damascus, Egypt, Philistia, Tyre and the whole earth, an experience that should take strong hold on the hearts of devout readers. In prophetic vision the verse presents Christ calling on God for help amid the life-and-death struggles and suffering he endured, showing his dependence on God and his appeal for deliverance.
The verse shows Christ in his humiliation as man's substitute crying to God for rescue, having taken man's weaknesses, infirmities and sins upon himself so fully as to identify himself with man in all failings and sufferings that he felt brought very low as worm Jacob bearing Jacob's sins, pouring out his soul in agony for God's help while pleading the promises God made concerning Jacob, revealing the greatness of his sacrifice. A person may call upon God with confidence that the Lord hears and saves, and this assurance supports prayer for God to revive his people. The verse expresses a personal appeal to God in confidence that the Lord will save, presented as a prayer for a child seeking a pure heart and God's friendship.