Verse 4
For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
Ecce enim Deus adjuvat me, et Dominus susceptor est animae meae.
They, he says, had not God before their eyes; but God had them before His eyes and He saw what they were plotting, and He did not permit their evil will to be fulfilled. The word
ecce / behold signifies a sudden illumination for the Prophet, by which he foresees that God’s help would not be wanting, and he so certain is he of what he foresees that he speaks as though it were a thing happening in the present and he says: “Behold ,God is my helper;” the conjunction
enim / for, may stand either for
autem / however, or it may be understood as follows: They have not set God before their eyes, as they ought to have done: “For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul,” that is, behold, I see God helping me, and taking me into the safety of his bosom so as to protect my life, which these men wish to take from me. And truly sudden and unexpected was God’s help; for when Saul had surrounded David with his army on all sides, so that he was unable to escape, suddenly a messenger came to Saul to tell him that the Philistines had come into his territory with a large army, and Saul was forced by this news to cease his pursuit of David; and perhaps it was while David was praying that the messenger arrived, and David, who had foreseen him in the spirit, says: “For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.”
Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam.
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