What is the context?
Ruthless people seek the speaker’s life without regard for God. The appeal answers their character with God’s compassion, patience, and faithfulness.
The speaker asks for strength, rescue, and a sign of goodness that enemies can recognize. The desired sign concerns help in an actual danger.
The prayer does not instruct readers to assign secret meanings to ordinary coincidences. It asks that God’s care become evident in rescue and comfort.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley follows the appeal through God’s abundant mercy. The description of God remains the reason for seeking a favorable turn; the enemies’ arrogance is not an excuse for the speaker to become merciless.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.