Here is, 1. The great distress that David was in. He was in affliction, and ready to perish in his affliction , not likely to die, so much as likely to despair; he was ready to give up all for gone, and to look upon himself as cut off from God’s sight; he therefore admires the goodness of God to him, that he had not perished, that he kept the possession of his own soul, and was not driven out of h...