“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.”
The description of the cords of death and torrents of destruction surrounding the speaker and terrors of Sheol overwhelming him establishes the extremity of danger. The death imagery suggests mortal peril approaching from all sides. The waves and torrents suggest that the danger overwhelms like natural disaster. This verse articulates the acute distress from which God has rescued the speaker.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:4
To the end, for the servant of the Lord, David himself. 1. That is, for the strong of hand, Christ in His Manhood. “The words of this song which he spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies, and of the hand of Saul; and he said, On the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies and of the hand of Saul:” namely, the king of the Jews, whom they had demanded for themselves. 1 Samuel 8:5 For as “David” is said…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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