The last verse sums up the diverse fates of the "men of blood and deceit" and of the psalmist. The terrible prayers of the middle portion of the psalm have wrought the assurance of their fulfilment, just as the cries of faith have brought the certainty of theirs. So the two closing verses of the psalm turn both parts of the earlier petitions into prophecies; and over against the trustful, righteous psalmist, standing erect and unmoved, there is set the picture of the "man of blood and deceit," chased down the black slopes to the depths of destruction by the same God whose hand holds up the man that trusts in Him. It is a dreadful contrast, and the spirit of the whole psalm is gathered into it. The last clause of all makes "I" emphatic. It expresses the final resolution which springs in the singer's heart in view of that dread picture of destruction and those assurances of support. He recoils from the edge of the pit, and eagerly opens his bosom for the promised blessing. Well for us if the upshot of all our meditations on the painful riddle of this unintelligible world, and of all our burdens and of all our experiences and of our observation of other men's careers, is the absolute determination, "As for me, I will trust in Jehovah!" PSALM LVI. 1 Be gracious to me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All day the fighting oppresses me. 2 My liers-in-wait would swallow me up all the day: For many proudly fight against me. 3 [In] the day [when] I fear, I will trust in Thee. 4 In God do I praise His word: In God do I trust, I will not fear; What can flesh do to me? 5 All day they wrest my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather together, they set spies, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul. 7 Shall there be escape for them because of iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. 8 My wanderings hast Thou reckoned: Put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; Are they not in Thy reckoning? 9 Then shall my enemies turn back in the day [when] I call: This I know, that God is for me (_or_ mine). 10 In God will I praise the word: In Jehovah will I praise the word. 11 In God have I trusted, I will not fear; What can man do to me? 12 Upon me, O God, are Thy vows: I will requite praises to Thee. 13 For Thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling? That I may walk before God in the light of the living.