Division 4 (Daleth)
The Lord the alone resource in the time of trouble.
(vs. 25) With the power of evil pressing upon his spirit, the godly man looks only to the Lord for relief. He does not seek to find relief by escaping from the pressure. He seeks God in the pressure, praying that God would raise his drooping spirits according to the comfort of the word.
(vs. 26) This confidence in God is the outcome of confession to God. The soul having made known all its ways to God was conscious of having been heard, “I have declared my ways and thou heardest me.”
(vv. 27-28) Having confessed his own ways, the psalmist desires to be taught God’s way, and God’s wondrous works, and thus find relief from his felt weakness by God’s strength.
(vv. 29-32) Desiring God’s way the soul prays to be delivered front man’s way—the way of lying. He has confessed his way (vs. 26), learned God’s way (vs. 27), refused man’s way (vs. 29), and chosen God’s way (vs. 30)―the way of truth. In the confidence that springs from this definite choice of the way of truth, the soul intreats the Lord that he may not be put to shame. Moreover, being ‘enlarged,’ or ‘set free’ from heaviness, he desires with renewed energy to run the way of the Lord’s commandments.