Psa 53-55

"In our reading from the Psalms (53.–55.) we are with Israel seated in the Holy Land about 500 years after Moses led them out of Egypt. We are with David enthroned as their king, and writing by the Spirit of God upon him. His theme is related to the purpose of God with Israel. He laments the obtuseness of the common run of people with regard to God, and the consequent prevalence of violence and darkness. He longs for what God has purposed with Israel. “Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!” He prays that meanwhile he may be shielded from the machinations of ungodly men who are bent upon his destruction. He groans with pain of heart, and confesses that fear and horror have invaded his soul, by reason of the activity and success of men of enmity who have no fear of God before their eyes. In all this, he outlines a mental condition that answers exactly to what is experienced by men in every age, who believe in the God of Israel and have made His Word their portion. It is all within the compass of the ground marked out and all built on the foundation laid at the beginning, when God openly interfered to bring Israel out of Egypt by Moses."

R.R. 1887 The Christadelphian: p 121