“I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.”
Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me in a broad place. The speaker recounts crisis ('distress') and rescue, with God's response ('answered me') resulting in expansion ('set me in a broad place'). The move from constriction to breadth represents freedom. This verse portrays individual rescue.
Church Fathers on Psalms 118:5
1. ...We are taught in this Psalm, when we chaunt Allelujah, which means, Praise the Lord, that we should, when we hear the words, “Confess unto the Lord” Psalm 117:1, praise the Lord. The praise of God could not be expressed in fewer words than these, “For He is good.” I see not what can be more solemn than this brevity, since goodness is so peculiarly the quality of God, that the Son of God Himself when addressed by some one as “Good Master,” by one, namely, who beholding…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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