The Lord also. — Better, but let Jehovah.
Refuge. — Properly, a stronghold: a citadel into which the persecuted would retreat.
Oppressed. — Properly, crushed.
Trouble. — From root meaning “to cut off from.” Sc., “provisions,” “water,” and the like. Its cognate in Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 17:8, means “drought.” The phrase “in times of trouble” recurs in Psalms 10:1.