"Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident."
COMMENTARY: I like what Matthew Henry has to say about this verse (blueletterbible.org): "Though they be numerous, a host of them, though they be daring and their attempts threatening, though they encamp against me, an army against one man, though they wage war upon me, yet my heart shall not fear.' Hosts cannot hurt us if the Lord of hosts protects us. Nay, in this assurance that God is for me "I will be confident.' He will be confident: That he shall be safe. "If God is my salvation, in the time of trouble he shall hide me; he shall set me out of danger and above the fear of it.' God will not only find out a shelter for his people in distress (as he did Jer. 36:26), but he will himself be their hiding-place (Ps. 32:7). His providence will, it may be, keep them safe; at least his grace will make them easy. His name is the strong tower into which by faith they run (Prov. 18:10). "He shall hide me, not in the strongholds of Engedi (1 Sa. 23:29), but in the secret of his tabernacle.' The gracious presence of God, his power, his promise, his readiness to hear prayer, the witness of his Spirit in the hearts of his people -- these are the secret of his tabernacle, and in these the saints find cause for that holy security and serenity of mind in which they dwell at ease. This sets them upon a rock which will not sink under them, but on which they find firm footing for their hopes; nay, it sets them up upon a rock on high, where the raging threatening billows of a stormy sea cannot touch them; it is a rock that is higher than we (Ps. 61:2).
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