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(Heb.: 41:11-13) Having now described their behaviour towards him, sick in soul and body as he is, so devoid of affection, yea, so malignantly hostile and so totally contrary to the will and promise of God, David prays that God would raise him up, for he is now lying low, sick in soul and in body. The prayer is followed, as in Ps 39:14 and many other passages, by the future with ah: that I may be able to requite them, or: then will I requite them. What is meant is the requiting which it was David's duty as a duly constituted king to exercise, and which he did really execute by the power of God, when he subdued the rebellion of Absalom and maintained his ground in opposition to faithlessness and meanness. Instead of בְּזֹאת אֵדַע (Gen 42:33, cf. Gen 15:8, Exo 7:17; Num 16:28; Jos 3:10) the expression is בְּזֹאת יָדַעְתִּי in the sense of (ex hoc) cognoverim. On חָפַצְתָּ בִּי cf. Psa 18:20; Psa 22:9; Psa 35:27. By the second כִּי, the בְּזֹאת, which points forwards, is explained. The adversatively accented subject וַאֲנִי stands first in Psa 41:13 as a nom. absol., just as in Psa 35:13. Psa 41:13 states, retrospectively from the standpoint of fulfilment, what will then be made manifest and assure him of the divine good pleasure, viz., Jahve upholds him (תָּמַךְ as in Psa 63:9), and firmly sets him as His chosen one before Him (cf. Psa 39:6) in accordance with the Messianic promise in 2Sa 7:16, which speaks of an unlimited future.