Preserve my soul - Preserve, or keep, my life; for so the word rendered soul means in this place, as it does commonly in the Scriptures.

For I am holy. —Rather, in order to reproduce the feeling, for I am one of the chosen ones; one of Your saints, etc.<…

Preserve my soul, for I am meek. Here the Psalmist presents two other arguments by which to stir up God to grant him help: his own gentlen…

Preserve my soul
Or life, which Saul sought after; and this prayer was heard: David was often remarkably preserved b…

Our poverty and wretchedness, when felt, powerfully plead in our behalf at the throne of grace. The best self-preservation is to commit ourselves t…