Psalms 54:7

For he hath delivered me Such a transition from the second person of Psalms 54:6 to the third person is quite possible: cp. the converse transition in Psalms 54:5: but the subject of the verb maybe -the Name of Jehovah." Cp. Leviticus 24:11; Isaiah 30:27.

The perfect tense (-hath delivered" … -hath seen") looks back from the hour of thanksgiving upon an answered prayer. Cp. Psalms 52:9, "because thou hast done it."

hath seenhis desire] Cp. Psalms 37:34; Psalms 52:6; Psalms 59:10; Psalms 92:11; Psalms 112:8; Psalms 118:7. Such rejoicing over the fall of enemies is not of the spirit of the Gospel. But the -salvation" for which the Psalmist prays is a temporal deliverance, which can only be effected at the expense of the implacable enemies who are seeking his life; and it will be a vindication of God's faithfulness and a proof of His righteous government at which he cannot but rejoice. The defeat of evil and the triumph of good presented themselves to the saints of the O.T. in this concrete form, which sometimes has a ring of personal vindictiveness about it, yet, fairly considered, is in its real motive and character elevated far above a mere thirst for revenge. See Introd. pp. lxxxviii ff.