The psalmist was not perfect (only the man Christ Jesus was that), but whatever his failures, his heart was ever towards God, that he might please Him. He therefore concludes his long psalm thus: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant, for I do not forget Thy commandments.”
Samuel mourned deeply and long over Saul, and no wonder, for he must be interested in the king he had anointed, and the disappointment was great. But in due course the Lord aroused him from his grief and bade him fill his horn with oil and go to the house of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, “for I have provided Me a king amongst his sons” (1 Sam. 16).