“Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.”
The reference to enemies as a strong foe who oppresses articulates the real and serious nature of the threat; this is not imagined danger but actual and substantial opposition. The request that God watch and keep the psalmist indicates dependence on divine vigilance and protection. The affirmation that the psalmist will look to God as their strength establishes the proper orientation: away from the threat and toward the source of true power. This verse reiterates the dependence on God while acknowledging the reality of the threat.
Church Fathers on Psalms 59:9
The First Part. 1. As the Scripture is wont to set mysteries of the Psalms on the titles, and to deck the brow of a Psalm with the high announcement of a Mystery, in order that we that are about to go in may know (when as it were upon the door-post we have read what within is doing) either of whom the house is, or who is the owner of that estate: so also in this Psalm there has been written a title, of a title. For it has, “At the end, corrupt not for David himself unto the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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