translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The psalmist confidently asks the Lord to protect him. Enemies threaten him and even his friends have abandoned him, but he looks to the Lord for vindication. In vv. 19-24 , which were apparently written after the Lord answered the prayer of vv. 1-18 , the psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him.


text: The metaphor of the high ridge pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28 .