Psalms 54:4

Psa 54:4 Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with them that uphold my soul.

Ver. 4. Behold, God is mine helper ] And that mine enemies might have seen, had they set God before them. The Dutch have a proverb, Where God hath a mind to destroy a man, he first putteth out his eyes.

The Lord is with them that uphold my soul ] That favour my righteous cause, and wish my welfare, as doth Jonathan, and the rest that fear God; who although they be but few and feeble in comparison, yet they have God with them and for them ( non interfuit modo, sed etiam praefuit ), and how many do you reckon him for? as Antigonus once said. David was environed, and in great danger to be surprised; but God rescued him by an invasion of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 23:27-28 . The Lord knoweth how to deliver his, 2Pe 2:9 R. Moses expounded it, God is loco omnium, et super omnes, instead of all, and above all.