Verses 7-9
7-9. But he trusts in Jehovah, and looks to the end with a sweetly-willing patience. No shame makes him faint-hearted.
The Lord God will help me Assurance of hope is assurance of faith for the long future. Except in the Divine Man, no such endurance, with its long waiting, is possible to be exemplified.
Like a flint He made his face as unfeeling as a flint-stone the hardest stone known. Power of will to endure like this raises supreme admiration and supreme pity.
He is near That is, he who justifieth; who causes to be, and at length who appears before the universe a just one. This is in antithesis with the next causative verb to condemn, to make one a condemned man.
Let us stand together Adjudication is invited; the contender, or adversary, is called on to do his worst. Messiah does not fear. His mission is serenely to endure. But Jehovah is near, and on his side. His cause is sure. Righteousness will at length be pronounced on him. But the adversary will fail and vanish to naught, as does the rich oriental’s wealth consisting of abundant changes of raiment which the moth preys upon and devours.
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