It says in verse 3, he shall send from heaven and save me.
So he believes that.
He says, look, God is going to bail me out.
He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me
up, Selah.
What does it mean reproach, reproach?
Well if you look at how this is used in the Bible, for example it's famously said of Jesus
when Jesus is on the cross that he's being reproached.
He's a reproach.
Basically it's something that's shameful where people would talk bad about you, put you down.
That's what it means to reproach someone, to basically criticize them, attack them,
tear them down.
Jesus when he's on the cross, it says the reproaches of them that reproach thee fell
on me.
Jesus has taken the rap for everybody's sins when he's on the cross and so it says he shall
send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up.
So the enemies that are trying to swallow him up, it's not just a physical fight because
we often read in the book of Psalms about physical battles because we know David's a
warrior and he's out there fighting against the Philistines and other enemies but in this
passage and we saw it in the last few Psalms as well in Psalm 56 and Psalm 55, it's a propaganda
war that he's dealing with as well and so these people who want to swallow him up, their
weapon that they're attacking him with is reproach, they're reproaching him.
They're verbally attacking him.
Look at verse number four and I'll show you what I mean.
It says my soul is among lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the
sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword.
Notice how their tongue is a sharp sword and even when it talks about the people being
set on fire, that kind of recalls James chapter three when it talks about the tongue being
set on fire of hell.
The tongue is a world of iniquity set on fire of hell.
These people are set on fire.
Their tongue is like a sword and they're there to devour him.