PSALM 13
This Psalm is with the outward enemies; it is the expression of Isaiah 8:17, i.e., of Christ’s Spirit in the temporary rejection of the Jewish people, but it is the supplication when there seems, ultimately perhaps, a bringing in the deliverance. “How long” is the prayer of faith — “for ever”? For now it appears, as though there were no deliverance and thus victory of men, as the heathen, and the ungodly.
— 5. Khas’d’ka (thy mercy). His trust was in His knowledge of this, for He was it — hence derivatively our assimilation to the character of God, only first towards us; still “he that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love”.
He is seemingly forgotten of God.