Psalms 35:17 - Exposition

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? "How long?" is the common cry of sufferers ( Job 19:2 ; Psalms 6:3 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 79:5 ; Psalms 89:46 ; Habakkuk 1:2 ; Revelation 6:10 ), who do not recognize the wholesome discipline of suffering, or realize the fact implied in the phrase, "No cross, no crown." Man desires immediate deliverance; God mostly delays his deliverance until Patience has "had her perfect work" ( James 1:4 ). Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling, from the lions (comp. Psalms 22:20 ).