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shall `alone be exalted in that day'. Other occurrences are in
Psalms 139 and 69, and, more familiarly, in Psalm 91 :
` It is high, I cannot attain unto it' (Psa. 139:6).
` O God, set me up on high' (Psa. 69:29).
` I will set him on high, because He hath known My Name' (Psa. 91:14).
The word misgab, which actually appears in the A.V. of
Jeremiah 48:1, is used by David in 2 Samuel 22:3, when he says
of the Lord :
` The God of my rock; in Him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of
my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour'.
It was this word, translated `refuge', that came before us in
Psalm 46:7 and 11.
Out of his experience `in the cave', David wrote the Psalm we
considered in the previous section. Out of another experience
belonging to the same period he wrote Psalm 59, the
superscription of which reads, referring to 1 Samuel 19:11 :
`When Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him'. The
Psalm opens with the words: `Deliver me from mine enemies, O
my God: defend me from them that rise up against me'.
Psalm 59 is divided into two parts by the references to God as
David's defence. If, instead of the somewhat ambiguous
rendering: `Because of His strength will I wait on Thee' (verse
9), we read `O my strength' as in verse 17; the two verses can
then be read together :
` O my strength, I will wait upon Thee, for God is my defence' (9).
` O my strength, unto Thee will I sing, for God is my defence, and the
God of my mercy' (17).