Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 55:22-23
David Now Exhorts All Who Hear These Words To Do What He Does, By Casting Their Burden On YHWH, With The Assurance That He Can Be Trusted And Will Certainly Sustain The Righteous (Psalms 55:22-23 ) As so often happens in the Psalms, there is a change of theme at the end of the Psalm which has the worshippers who are using the Psalm primarily in view. Psalms 55:22 ‘Cast your burden on YHWH, And he will sustain you, He will never allow the righteous to be moved.’ He calls on all who are... read more
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 55:22
A BURDEN-BEARING GOD‘Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.’Psalms 55:22A great part of the burden of daily life is the sin that is in it. Take out the sin, and there will not be much burden left. I. As regards those common burdens which every one bears, God says, ‘Cast thy burden on the Lord.’—It is very difficult to sympathise with one another’s burdens; and of course each, knowing only his own, thinks his own the heaviest. Christ alone can sympathise with all. But your... read more