Psalms 55:4. My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
I suppose that David may have written this after he had been driven out of Jerusalem by the party under the leadership of his son Absalom and Ahithophel. When it is all over he sings his song of dolour, and yet of confidence before his God. You know that our Lord Jesus Christ could use this language with very great emphasis. "My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me" - as if mid-night came down upon his soul - came down from God. "Are fallen upon me." Descended therefore; and those are the heaviest of griefs which seem to come down just when we expected that showers of mercy would come down. Our Saviour knew what this meant.
Psalms 55:4. My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
I suppose that David may have written this after he had been driven out of Jerusalem by the party under the leadership of his son Absalom and Ahithophel. When it is all over he sings his song of dolour, and yet of confidence before his God. You know that our Lord Jesus Christ could use this language with very great emphasis. "My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me" - as if mid-night came down upon his soul - came down from God. "Are fallen upon me." Descended therefore; and those are the heaviest of griefs which seem to come down just when we expected that showers of mercy would come down. Our Saviour knew what this meant.