Confidence in God: full and heavenly deliverance looked for
Psalm 57 looks more at the evil and the feet being kept, leaning
on the word. This psalm, while crying to God in the same spirit
and circumstances, and under the same title, is more the
expression of confidence in God as a refuge. His wings are a
covert till the evil be overpast, and full deliverance is looked
for by His gloriously putting an end to the trial. God will send
from heaven and deliver. Hence the end of the psalm is more
triumphant than that of Psalm 56. He will praise among the peoples
and various tribes of the earth, for God's mercy and truth are
great. God's publicly exalting Himself above heaven and over all
the earth is looked for. No help was on earth, none to be looked
for; but this cast more entirely on God, and thus brought out a
fuller confidence in His safeguard, and in the final display of
power in deliverance. So it ever is. God would send from
heaven. How this directs the remnant upwards, and links them with
a heavenly deliverance. Then Jehovah is praised.
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