His deliverance will encourage others who are harshly treated to put their whole trust in God (32-33). He promises that his worship will be thankful and sincere, far more than the mere sacrifice of animals (29-31). Although in pain and despair, the psalmist still trusts in God, believing that God will hear him. As they have heaped sorrow on the godly, may God heap his punishment on them (26-28). The psalmist prays that his persecutors themselves will taste something of the tortures that they have been giving him - the poisoned food, the dark hiding places, the weakness the fear, the loneliness (22-25). His enemies increase his torture by the poisoned food and bitter drink they give him (19-21). He has nothing but disappointment from those he thought were his friends. Although his sufferings and dangers are not lessened, he believes God will rescue him from them (13-18). At this point the psalmist turns to consider God’s steadfast love. His zeal for God, his fasting, and his other acts of devotion are merely an excuse for others to mock him and insult God (9-12). The psalmist is an outcast even among his own family (7-8). He does not want his enemies to triumph over him, in case other believers are discouraged (5-6).
On the basis of this he cries out to God to rescue him. He knows he is not sinless, but he also knows that he has tried to live uprightly before God. His enemies cruelly injure him, forcing him to suffer for sins that he did not commit (4). As a person sinking in a muddy pit, or someone drowning in swirling floodwaters, so the psalmist fears he is being overwhelmed by his sufferings.
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