Psalms 56

⁴In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Will praise - I will praise the Lord for his word, for his promises of protection and deliverance, made to his people. Flesh - Infirm and mortal men, called flesh by way of contempt, as Psal 78:39 Isa 31:3.

⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

They gather - After they have severally employed their thoughts against me, they meet together to compare them, and to put them in execution. Hide - They lurk secretly, that they may pry into my most private actions. Steps - That they may find some occasion to reproach me. Soul - Or, life, to take it away.

⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

Escape - Shall they secure themselves by injurious and malicious practices. The people - These who are mine enemies.

⁸Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Wanderings - How I have been hunted from place to place. Put - Regard and pity them. Are they not - But why do I pray to God to do that which he hath already done?

¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

Thy vows - I had made vows to express my gratitude, and resolve to perform them.

¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Walk - That I may serve and glorify thee. The light-ln this life.