Psa 54:4 | KingComments | STEP | Then David turns his gaze away from the people who are after him and, with an emphatic “behold”, turns his eyes with confidence to God ( ). God is his Helper. He has often experienced that and he is counting on it again now. He knows that “the Lord”, that is Adonai, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, “is the sustainer of [literally: as those who sustain]” his soul. His soul, his life, is under siege and threatens to waver. But he will not fall because the Lord sustains him. He is aware that his faithful followers also sustain him, which they only can do because God helps and sustains them. David does not take the law into his own hands, but leaves it to God to recompence his attackers the evil ( ; ). God will deal with them according to what they deserve. He trusts that God will act that way for He is faithful to Himself. That means He will deal righteously with any evil done to His own. He cannot deny Himself and therefore in His faithfulness He will destroy the unrepentant evildoers (cf. ). The unbelieving part of Israel will be wiped out in the future by the disciplinary rod of God, the Assyrian ( ), in this case the king of the North. For David, the judgment on Saul does not come immediately to his deliverance. It will be years before Saul is killed.

‏ Psalms 54:4

God Is Helper

Then David turns his gaze away from the people who are after him and, with an emphatic “behold”, turns his eyes with confidence to God (Psa 54:4). God is his Helper. He has often experienced that and he is counting on it again now. He knows that “the Lord”, that is Adonai, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, “is the sustainer of [literally: as those who sustain]” his soul. His soul, his life, is under siege and threatens to waver. But he will not fall because the Lord sustains him. He is aware that his faithful followers also sustain him, which they only can do because God helps and sustains them.

David does not take the law into his own hands, but leaves it to God to recompence his attackers the evil (Psa 54:5; Rom 12:19). God will deal with them according to what they deserve. He trusts that God will act that way for He is faithful to Himself. That means He will deal righteously with any evil done to His own. He cannot deny Himself and therefore in His faithfulness He will destroy the unrepentant evildoers (cf. 2Tim 2:13).

The unbelieving part of Israel will be wiped out in the future by the disciplinary rod of God, the Assyrian (Isa 10:5), in this case the king of the North. For David, the judgment on Saul does not come immediately to his deliverance. It will be years before Saul is killed.