Psalms 56:3,4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

What time I am afraid, &c. When I have the greatest cause of fear I will rely on thy providence and promise for deliverance. In God will I praise his word I will praise, or boast, in the Lord's word, or, in the Lord for his word. Or with, or by, God's favour or help, I will praise his word. The sense seems to be this: there are many things to be praised and celebrated in God, his power and wisdom, &c., but among them all, and above them all, I shall now praise him for his Word, which he hath magnified above all his name, as is said Psalms 138:2, even for his promises of protection and deliverance, made to his people in all their exigencies, and particularly for that promise of the kingdom made to me; for which I will now praise him, because, though it be not yet fulfilled, I am as sure of its accomplishment as if it were done already. I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Infirm and mortal men, altogether unable to oppose thy infinite majesty; called flesh by way of contempt.