Psalms 55:18

“Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, etc.] This is mentioned in (<198808>Psalm 88:8), and is here repeated; and the account is closed with it, to show that this was a most aggravating circumstance of his affliction, and which bore exceeding hard upon him; and this must be a very uncomfortable case, to be in distress, whether of body or mind, and to have no kind friend near to yield the least help, relief, and comfort; so Christ’s lovers and friends, his disciples, who loved him and he loved them, and reckoned them as his friends, and was a friend to them, when he was taken by his enemies, they all forsook him, and fled, (<402656>Matthew 26:56), and mine acquaintance into darkness;…”

“many with me--that is, by the context, fighting with me.”

“He hath delivered my soul in peaee - The Hebrew is, “He has redeemed;” so also the Septuagint and Vulgate. The meaning is, He has “rescued” me, or has saved me from my enemies. Either the psalmist composed the psalm “after” the struggle was over, and in view of it, here speaks of what had actually occurred; or he is so confident of being redeemed and saved that he speaks of it as if it were already done. See Psalms 55:19. There are many instances in the Psalms in which the writer is so certain that what he prays for will be accomplished that he speaks of it as if it had already actually occurred. The words “in peace” mean that God ad given him peace; or that the result of the divine…”

“He hath - He speaks of a future deliverance, as a thing done, because of the certainty of it. He hath restored me to my former peace and tranquility. For - For there were more with me than against me; even the holy angels whom God employed to defend and deliver me. Psalms 55:19”

“He hath: Psa 3:6, Psa 3:7, Psa 27:1-3, Psa 57:3, Psa 118:10-12; Sa2 18:28, Sa2 22:1; Act 2:33-36 there: Kg2 6:16; Ch2 32:7, Ch2 32:8; Mat 26:53; Jo1 4:4 Psalms 55:19”