Return, O Lord, deliver my soul - As if he had departed from him, and had left him to die. The word “soul” in this place is used, a…

Will not that prayer suit you who are here tonight, you who are full of sin, and are heartbroken about it, and dread the wrath to come? I put this …

Return, O Lord. In the preceding verses, the Psalmist lamented God's absence, and now he earnestly requests signs of His presence; for our…

Return, O Lord
By this it seems that the Lord has withdrawn himself, and was departed from the psalmist, wherefore h…

These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mo…

In the preceding psalm, David asked to be led in the way of justice because of his enemies.

Here, however, having fallen, he asks to be renew…