"Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O You that save by your right hand them which put their trust in You from those that rise up against them." (Psalm 17:7)
This is very comforting, for: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly." (Psalm 118:16)
But if you will look at the marginal reading you will find an exact translation of the Hebrew of the last part of this verse, which is much stronger than the paraphrase which the translators thought best to put in the body of the text. Thus we may read it: "Show [or, make distinguished, prominent] your loving-kindness, O You that save them which trust in You from those that rise up against your right hand."
God counts every attack on us as directed against himself, and so it indeed is, since "in Him we live." (Acts 17:28)
Then the oft-repeated, and oftener thought query, "Can God save me?" may be changed for, "Can God successfully defend himself?"
But to ask such a question is to answer it, and so there is an end to doubt and fear. What a blessed thing it is to know that our life is "bound in the bundle of life with the Lord," (1 Samuel 25:29) and is as safe as His.--Present Truth, September 5, 1901--Psalm 17:7.