when I fall, I shall arise - (Psa 37:24; Pro 24:16).
when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light - Israel reasons as her divine representative, Messiah, reasoned by faith in His hour of darkness and desertion (Isa 50:7, Isa 50:8, Isa 50:10). Israel addresses Babylon, her triumphant foe (or Edom), as a female; the type of her last and worst foes (Psa 137:7, Psa 137:8). “Mine enemy,” in Hebrew, is feminine.