Key verse: 3
O LORD SAVE ME
God is just, he takes the side of the righteous and protects him. Therefore he is only worthy of confidence.
1. O Lord save me (1-5)
After a treachery, the heart is broken. Those who are trusted turned their back on us because of a petty gain, so haunting evil penetrates our heart. But at that time, the psalmist turned his eyes to God and contemplated his virtue. Then, he revealed his heart and his situation just as it is. God is the one who listens to the prayer. He is faithful. He is merciful. The traitors are heartless, violent and cruel. Above all, there isn't God in them (53:2).
2. By your truth (6-9)
So the psalmist goes to war. War isn't against the enemy but against the accuser. The spirit vengeance can possibly penetrate in his heart, doing damage. It's the work of the malignant Satan. We must overcome this kind of feeling going to God. When the psalmist meditates God's word day and night, finally he found that in the word of truth there is the solution. Therefore the psalmist prays that God bring justice to his critics, not by strength and calamity but by truth. Truth has a power to destroy the enemy. In others words he prays that the word of truth act in them so that they will be shattered. A man can't do nothing against truth says the Bible. Even is he seems power and strong, is a man acts against truth he is powerless, because truth acts in his conscience and accuses him before God. They were traitors but they also were people who supported the psalmist. He give thanks to God and prays that God supports them. Then, God rescued him and issued him, so that he can praise and offer sacrifices to God.
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