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David's Confident Trust
v. 8. The Lord, the great Judge of all men, shall judge the people, David at that time confidently expecting a decision in his favor. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness; for he was sure of being acquitted of deliberate wrong-doing if the record of his life were tested, and according to mine integrity that is in me, according to which David always led his life.
v. 9. Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, putting a stop to their torturing of the believers; but establish the just, protecting them in their righteous cause; for the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins, the affections and motives of man named after their supposed seat. With this certainty, David's prayer gains in confidence.
v. 10. My defense is of God, He Himself having undertaken his protection and vindication, which saveth the upright in heart, those who are believers in truth, without a show of hypocrisy.
v. 11. God judgeth the righteous, being just in all His judgments, and God is angry with the wicked every day, always abhorring their evil ways and preparing for their punishment.
v. 12. If he, namely, the wicked person, turn not, He will whet His sword, for a just and severe retribution; He hath bent His bow and made it ready, for the sudden destruction of the ungodly.
v. 13. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He ordaineth His arrows against the persecutors, the burning arrows and darts of His lightnings being tile messengers of His punishment.
v. 14. Behold, he, the wicked man, travaileth with iniquity, laboring and struggling, as in the throes of childbirth, in bringing forth transgression, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood, his intention is to do harm to others, but in the end the deception will strike himself.
v. 15. He made a pit and digged it, with the intention of destroying the righteous, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
v. 16. His mischief shall return upon his own head, slaying him with his own weapons, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate, the wrath of God thereby being made manifest upon the oppressors.
v. 17. I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness, giving Him thanks even now because of tile certainty of deliverance from the present distress; and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. Beginning in a tone almost of despair, the believer ends his prayer with a confident, a triumphant shout; for such is the effect of faith.