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Psalm 55

Summary of Doctrinal Application From the New Testament

1. The Anguish of the Sufferer and Gethsemane (Verses 1-8)

The cry of David in his distress, surrounded by false accusation and the terrors of death, directly prefigures the agony of the Lord Jesus
Christ. In 1 Peter 3:12, the promise remains sure that the eyes of the
Lord are over the righteous and His ears are open unto their prayers.
When the Psalmist speaks of mourning and making a noise in verse 2,
Romans 8:26 echoes this intercessory groan, showing that the Holy Spirit
helps our infirmities with groanings that cannot be uttered. The
oppression of the wicked laying iniquity upon the innocent (verse 3) was realized when false witnesses sought deceitful counsel against Christ to
put Him to death (Matthew 26:59-60). The deep internal agony and terrors
of death in verses 4 and 5 find their complete fulfillment in the Garden
of Gethsemane, where Christ began to be sorrowful and very heavy,
declaring His soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death (Matthew
26:37-38; Mark 14:33-34; John 12:27; Luke 22:44), offering up prayers
and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to
save Him from death (Hebrews 5:7). Paul likewise experienced being
pressed out of measure above strength, despairing of life, yet trusting
in God who raises the dead (2 Corinthians 1:8-10). The cry to flee to
the wilderness from the storm (verses 6-8) echoes both the refuge given
to the persecuted woman in Revelation 12:14 and the warning of Christ in Matthew 7:25-27 regarding the tempest that overthrows all that is not
built upon the rock.

2. Division of Tongues and Civic Rebellion (Verses 9-11)

The prayer to divide their tongues and confound their counsel (verse 9)
was answered in the New Testament when the religious leaders were thrown
into division over Christ's teaching (John 7:45-53) and when Paul
divided the council between the Pharisees and Sadducees (Acts 23:6-10).
The denunciation of violence and strife in the city (verse 9) was
fulfilled in Christ weeping over Jerusalem because she killed the
prophets and rejected her peace (Matthew 23:37-38; 1 Thessalonians
2:15-16). The treacherous plots carried out by day and night (verse 10) materialized in the chief priests and officers hunting Christ with
lanterns and torches (John 18:3, 28) and the Jews watching the gates to
kill Saul (Acts 9:24). The pervasive deceit and wickedness described in
verse 11 was boldly charged against the Sanhedrin by Stephen in Acts
7:51-52 as betrayers and murderers of the Just One, and was seen in the
chief priests consulting to take Jesus by subtilty (Matthew 26:4).

3. The Betrayal by a Familiar Friend and the Fate of Traitors (Verses
12-15, 20-21)

The sting of treachery from an equal, a guide, and a familiar friend in
verses 12-14 is explicitly applied to Judas Iscariot. The Lord Jesus
directly applied the betrayal of the close companion at the table to
Judas (Matthew 26:21-23; John 13:18), who led the band to arrest Him
(Matthew 26:47-50; Mark 14:44-45; Luke 22:21, 47-48; John 18:2-3). The hypocritical demeanor depicted in verse 21, where the words are smoother
than butter but war is in the heart, was enacted when Judas greeted
Christ with a kiss and hailed Him Master while delivering Him to death (Matthew 26:49-50; Mark 14:45; Luke 22:48), Satan having already put
betrayal into his heart (John 13:2). In Acts 12:1, Herod continued this violent assault against the church. The sudden descent of the wicked
alive into the pit (verse 15) fell upon Judas, who departed, hanged
himself, and went to his own place (Matthew 26:24; 27:5; Acts 1:18-20, 25).

4. Unceasing Prayer and Divine Deliverance (Verses 16-19)

David's commitment to continuous prayer evening, morning, and at noon
(verses 16-17) exemplifies the life of Christ and the apostolic pattern. Christ spent whole nights in prayer to God (Luke 6:11-12), arose a great
while before day to pray in a solitary place (Mark 1:35), and cried out vehemently in Gethsemane and on the cross (Matthew 26:39, 42; 27:50;
Hebrews 5:7). The apostles maintained set hours of prayer (Acts 3:1;
10:3, 9, 30), and believers are exhorted to pray without ceasing and
with all supplication in the Spirit (Ephesians 6:18; 1 Thessalonians
5:17). The sovereign rescue of verse 18 ("He hath delivered my soul in
peace") culminates in the resurrection and exaltation of Christ to the
right hand of God (Acts 2:33-36). Christ possessed the twelve legions of angels to deliver Him had He called (Matthew 26:53), proving the reality
of 1 John 4:4: greater is He that is in you than he that is in the
world. The God who abides of old and judges the unrepentant who fear Him
not (verse 19) is Christ Himself, who is before all things (Colossians
1:17), while those who disregard Him are choked by the cares and riches
of this world (Mark 4:19) or fear neither God nor man (Luke 18:2),
bringing wrath upon themselves to the uttermost (1 Thessalonians
2:15-16; Revelation 6:10-11).

5. Casting Care Upon God and the Preservation of the Righteous (Verses
22-23)

The command in verse 22 to "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee" is quoted directly by Peter in 1 Peter 5:7: "Casting all
your care upon Him; for He careth for you." Christ applies this truth to
daily life, instructing His people to take no anxious thought for food
or raiment, for their heavenly Father knows their need (Matthew 6:25,
31-34), and inviting the weary and heavy laden to come to Him for rest (Matthew 11:28). Paul echoes this in Philippians 4:6-7, commanding
believers to be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer to make
their requests known to God. The promise that God "shall never suffer
the righteous to be moved" (verse 22) is established eternally in John 10:27-30, where Christ's sheep are held securely in His and the Father's
hand and shall never perish, being kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation (1 Peter 1:5). Conversely, the bloody and deceitful
men who shall not live out half their days (verse 23) met their literal manifestation in the violent, shortened end of Judas Iscariot (Matthew 27:4-5).
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