Psalms 102:8-10. Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Observe that all David’s enemies could not make him weep. Mad as they were against him, they could not extort a tear from his eyes, but God’s indignation and wrath touched him to the quick, and made him mingle his drink with weeping. He felt that God was treating him as wrestlers treat one another, when a man deliberately lifts up his opponent in order that he may give him the worse fall: "Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down." All the joys that he had ever known seemed to make his sorrow the more bitter; the light of God’s countenance, in which he had formerly walked, made the darkness, in which he was enshrouded, to seem all the blacker.
Psalms 102:8-10. Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Observe that all David’s enemies could not make him weep. Mad as they were against him, they could not extort a tear from his eyes, but God’s indignation and wrath touched him to the quick, and made him mingle his drink with weeping. He felt that God was treating him as wrestlers treat one another, when a man deliberately lifts up his opponent in order that he may give him the worse fall: "Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down." All the joys that he had ever known seemed to make his sorrow the more bitter; the light of God’s countenance, in which he had formerly walked, made the darkness, in which he was enshrouded, to seem all the blacker.