Psalm 61

Psalm 61 is the cry of the godly; it does not speak of sins. The "rock that is higher than I" is a rock which is higher than the speaker, where he will be safe from the coming storm. Nearness to God in the day of glory is the confident hope of the remnant (verses 4-5).

"The king" in verses 6 and 7 was David when the psalm was written, but it is plain that in the prophetic sense in which the expression appears in the Book, the Lord Jesus as the Messiah—King of Israel is meant. (See Isaiah 53:10¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10)):

"He shall prolong His days;" also Daniel 7:14¹⁴And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. (Daniel 7:14). The reference in the psalm is to the abiding life into which He entered as man.

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