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Why Is David Called Out To God

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V1-2: In these verse’s David repeats ‘My God’ twice when calling out to God, “My God, My God” this repetition shows that David was in agony shows the “depths of his distress”, he was crying out to God so desperately wanting him to here, as David believed that God had abandoned him, “why hast thou forsaken me” God did not answer David’s cry’s for him, even when David is calling out to him by day and by night.
V3-5: David is saying to God, that he gave help to the fathers of Israel, saying that they trusted in God and he rescued them, “Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them”. That when they cried out for help God delivered them and he wasn’t disappointed or ashamed. But when David is crying out to God for help …show more content…

People see David and they are shaking their heads saying “He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him”. By saying this they are mocking him as they do not mean what they are saying. But David continues calling out to God. He is scared.
V12-13: “Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.” this two verse’s state a metaphor, two of the many metaphors used throughout the Psalm. This metaphor is referring enemies being like bulls surrounding him, and David is referring to the mouths of the enemies as being “like a ravening and a roaring lion” ‘when they are roaring and tearing at their food’. Their mouths are being shown a being as wide as a lion, this is because when a lion roars their mouths go very wide.
V14: This verse starts of by using a simile, “my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”. David is referring to his heart as being like wax, that is melted. This showing that David is very sad as his heart has melted because he was in pain and agony because God wouldn’t answer his

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