Arise, O God - As if God were now unresponsive to the wrongs and sufferings of His people; as if He were inattentive and unwilling …

These verses show that the psalm was actually composed amid the dark days it describes. It ends in expostulatory prayer, with still no brighter gle…

Arise, O God! plead your cause. The pious Jews again supplicate God to ascend into his judgment seat. He is then said to arise, w…

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause
The church's cause being the cause of God; and therefore she desires that he wou…

The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of those who revile his gospel and his servants will be pla…