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1. These are the words of one who was saddened, and chafed, and perplexed. The depravities of society, its treacheries, its selfishness, and its furious lust overpowered all faith but faith in God, and compelled, through a terrible discipline, and yet a gracious one, to that Christlike attitude of perfect resignation and perfect devotion and perfect hope depicted by the text. The feeling expressed is one of personal devotion and social separation.

2. When the oppressions of sin beat down the soul, and the burden on the conscience is heavy; when convictions lacerate and fears overwhelm, and the heart is agonised with the apprehension of the wrath of an angry God; when man is wearied and distracted with the world and sin, wondrous is the change to purity, freedom, and peace, when the vow of the prophet can formulate the soul's aspirations as in the text.

3. When man is converted and saved, the spiritual occupation of his new life is a looking, a waiting, and a praying; that occupation is permeated with hope and perpetuated by faith, and the certainties of a glorious issue illumine the path and lighten the soul.

4. No one can say "My God" who cannot also say "My God will hear me." Every saved soul prays. There is a necessary connection, in virtue of an essential law of the spiritual life, between the "receiving of the atonement" and the offering up of our desires unto God.

5. Those who are saved were, in the language of Scripture, "lost." Their salvation is the work of the Lord. Their Redeemer is the Deity.

6. The words, God of my salvation, My God," indicate the exercise of that appropriating faith by which we "lay hold on the hope set before us" in the everlasting Gospel.

(T. Easton.)

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KJV: Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

WEB: But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.