There is no reason to suppose that this in scription is not correct.
Whether it was written during the flight, or was written afterwards, as expressing the feelings which he had on that occasion, is immaterial.
Knowing the circumstances which called for this psalm we can enter more fully into the feelings of the psalmist.
Those circumstances we find recorded in detail in 2 Samuel chapters 15, 16, 17. With the incidents therein related fresh in our minds, let us examine the psalm, and see what there is in it which is profitable for us.
vs. 1: Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. The same language may be used by every one who professes to follow Christ.
To every one the warning is given, 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he made devour. He is at the head of a host, so that we have, as the apostle says, to contend… Ephesians 6:12 ...against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places.
Moreover, Christians are informed that in the world they shall have tribulation; Satan is the “god of this world,” and since he is the enemy of all righteousness we would naturally expect that the world would not be friendly to the Christian.
Psalm 3:2-4 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help
for him in God. But You, O Lord, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of a my head. I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill.
Psalm 3:2-4 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help
No portion of the Scriptures was written without a purpose. Romans 15:4 Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have a hope.
---When we read in the Old Testament, how wonderfully God de livered His people in time of battle, it is that we may take courage."
E.J. Waggoner
