Psalms 12:5

What a blessed relief is here found in divine strength against human deceitfulness; and with what sweetness doth this verse come in to comfort every sorrowful soul, that is sighing and crying for the abominations of the land! There is a time to favour Zion; and that time the King of Zion hath already marked. When his people groan, and when his enemies seem to be at the height of their cruelties, then, saith the Lord, will I arise. My soul, I charge it upon thee to remember this: and when matters seem to be most discouraging; when all human help seems over, and the enemy crieth out, "Aha, aha, so would we have it; " then Jesus is near at hand, and deliverance at the very door. What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? saith the Prophet. Why, that the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. Isaiah 14:32.