6). He Emphasises The Fact That The One Who Trusts In YHWH Will Be Surrounded With Mercy (10).
‘Many sorrows will be to the wicked,
But he who trusts in YHWH, lovingkindness will compass him about.'
David sums up his experience in a simple statement. Those who are wicked, (unresponsive to YHWH as David had been), will experience many sorrows, but those who respond to YHWH in faith and trust, will be surrounded by His lovingkindness and mercy, His covenant love. Here David makes clear his dependence on the grace of God, as well as the dependence of others. It is not by doing good that they will be surrounded by His lovingkindness, but by trusting in Him, but the very word lovingkindness. signifies love within the covenant and thus assumes a covenant response in David.