“Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.”
This evening psalm of trust opens by invoking God's righteousness as the ground for answered prayer, suggesting that the speaker's confidence rests on God's character rather than on circumstantial evidence of deliverance. The request for expansion (enlarge my heart) anticipates relief from distress through both divine intervention and internal transformation that makes the speaker capable of bearing or transcending present suffering. The superscription's assignment to the choirmaster indicates this psalm functioned liturgically, likely in evening worship where personal distress encountered institutional structures of prayer. The appeal to righteousness grounds confidence in God's moral nature, suggesting that the divine character guarantees attentiveness to faithful prayer.
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