Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
The cry speaks of distress under pressure from many hostile fighters closing in on every side. Their attack is not occasional but daily and unceasing, aiming to swallow up and overwhelm the speaker.
In its first setting it belongs to David's persecution and voices thankfulness for personal rescue from his foes. Yet more fully it belongs to Christ, whose Spirit moved the psalmist, and portrays the trials and opposition He met when many enemies continually sought His destruction.
So understood it brings encouragement to God's faithful children, setting Christ's experience alongside the circumstances of life with divine instruction. It meets believers who press forward amid opposition, poverty, feeble health, and discouragement while providing for themselves and their households and carrying forward the cause of truth. Such hardships are no sign that eternal life will be missed, but are to be borne with patience while God fits His people for glory.
The cry speaks of distress under pressure from many hostile fighters closing in on every side. Their attack is not occasional but daily and unceasing, aiming to swallow up and overwhelm the speaker.
In its first setting it belongs to David's persecution and voices thankfulness for personal rescue from his foes. Yet more fully it belongs to Christ, whose Spirit moved the psalmist, and portrays the trials and opposition He met when many enemies continually sought His destruction.
So understood it brings encouragement to God's faithful children, setting Christ's experience alongside the circumstances of life with divine instruction. It meets believers who press forward amid opposition, poverty, feeble health, and discouragement while providing for themselves and their households and carrying forward the cause of truth. Such hardships are no sign that eternal life will be missed, but are to be borne with patience while God fits His people for glory.