“Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.”
The petition that God would draw near and redeem the psalmist articulates the request for divine action to save from the affliction. The reference to delivering from enemies establishes that the goal is not merely survival but actual victory over those who assault. This verse maintains the petition for divine rescue despite the preceding expression of fear about God's silence.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:18
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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