Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Ver. 18. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation] This joy of the Lord was the prophet s strength, and kept his head above all waters of affliction, Nehemiah 8:10. So it was David's at the sack of Ziklag, 1 Samuel 30:6, when Saul at the same time for want of it ran first to the witch, and thence to the sword's point. A good man hath God for his portion; and if any occasion of discontent or trouble befall him he retireth into his counting house, and there seeth himself so well stored with unlosable graces and invaluable privileges that he cannot be greatly moved, Psalms 62:2. His soul in greatest straits can magnify the Lord, and his spirit rejoice in God his Saviour. Disquieted he may be sometimes for a season, till he hath recollected and better bethought himself. We are staggering, saith the apostle, but not wholly sticking, 2 Corinthians 4:8, for not the evenest weights but at their first putting into the balance do somewhat sway both parts thereof, not without some show of inequality, which yet after some little motion do settle themselves in a meet poise and posture.