“For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.”
The psalmist acknowledges that in his panic he said he had been cut off from God's sight, yet God heard his supplication. The verb "I said in my alarm" suggests that the psalmist's fear led to a false conclusion. The phrase "I am cut off from your eyes" expresses the terror of abandonment. Yet the immediate following statement—"yet you heard my cry"—reverses that conclusion. This verse demonstrates an important truth about faith: panic and despair may lead to false convictions about God's absence.
Church Fathers on Psalms 31:22
To the end, a psalm of David himself, an ecstasy. 1. To the end a Psalm of David Himself, the Mediator strong of hand in persecutions. For the word ecstasy, which is added to the title, signifies a transport of the mind, which is produced either by a panic, or by some revelation. But in this Psalm the panic of the people of God troubled by the persecution of all the heathen, and by the failing of faith throughout the world, is principally seen. But first the Mediator Himself…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a reflection on this verse
No reflections on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!