For You Shall Deal Bountifully With Me...

I cry out to the LORD with my voice;

With my voice to the LORD I make my supplication.

2 I pour out my complaint before Him;

I declare before Him my trouble.

3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,

Then You knew my path.

In the way in which I walk

They have secretly set a snare for me.

4 Look on my right hand and see,

For there is no one who acknowledges me;

Refuge has failed me;

No one cares for my soul.

5 I cried out to You, O LORD:

I said, "You are my refuge,

My portion in the land of the living.

6 Attend to my cry,

For I am brought very low;

Deliver me from my persecutors,

For they are stronger than I.

7 Bring my soul out of prison,

That I may praise Your name;

The righteous shall surround me,

For You shall deal bountifully with me."—Psalm 142

This is my all time favorite psalm.   I love every psalm, but I love this one the best.  It has spoken to and encouraged my heart countless times over the years.  I have memorized it and re-memorized it. Truly, it is a jewel that speaks beautiful truth to desolate, rejected hearts.  

It reminds the betrayed and rejected that HE is with them.  HE is on their side, and HE hears them. It tells them that God knows them intimately and cares for them deeply. HE is their strong habitation to which they can resort continually.  It causes them to remember that His grace is sufficient and that when they are weak, HE is strong.  Finally, it brings hope to the hopeless, the oppressed and the downtrodden. Their God is MIGHTY to save.  HE delivers them from their strong enemies. HE brings their soul out of prison. HE goes before them and makes the crooked places straight.  HE breaks in pieces the gates of bronze and cuts the bars of iron. Even the night for them, His beloved, is light about them. To His precious ones HE gives the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of secret places so they may know that HE, is God.  When they cannot see even their own feet, no less the path they should take, they can just take His hand and let Him lead.  They can trust Him...He will deal bountifully with them.