David’s lamented questions turn into a jubilant poetic prayer. His joy is engulfed in the Lord’s compassionate triumph. The Lord does see trouble and grief. He is the helper of the fatherless. God calls all to account for wickedness, all things done while in the flesh. His patience allowed them to repent, not wanting any to meet a dismal completion. Yet, the call for enough comes. “Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.”
The LORD is King forever and ever. His way is often not understood and more so misunderstood. Yes. The godless concludes, “He won’t call me to account.” And the victim acks, “Why?” and “How long?” The faithful declare, “You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.”
Wait just a little more and we will all see the Victoms’ Defender and the Evils’ Judge. He will “break the arm of the wicked and evil man; call him to account for his wickedness that would not be found out.”
