“In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.”
The declaration that in distress the speaker called upon God and cried to God for help establishes prayer as the response to mortal danger. The specificity of calling and crying emphasizes the directness and urgency of the plea. The appeal to God for help invokes divine intervention as the only possible salvation. This verse establishes that the speaker's deliverance originated in his prayer.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:6
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…
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