“He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.”
The declaration that God will hear and humble them because they have no fear of God articulates that the fundamental problem with the enemies is their lack of reverence for God, their refusal to acknowledge divine rule. The lack of fear (reverence) toward God leads necessarily to the maltreatment of God's people; the rejection of God enables the rejection of the righteous. The humbling of such enemies is presented as an inevitable consequence of their rebellion against God: they sow disrespect for the divine and reap humiliation. This verse connects the enemies' treatment of the psalmist to their fundamental alienation from God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 55:18
1. Of this Psalm the title is: “At the end, in hymns, understanding to David himself.” What the “end” is, we will briefly call to your recollection, because you have known it. “For the end of the Law is Christ, for righteousness unto every man believing.” Romans 10:4 Be the attention therefore directed unto the End, directed unto Christ. Wherefore is He called the end? Because whatever we do, to Him we refer it, and when to Him we shall have come home, more to ask we shall…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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