Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident.
Ver. 3. Though an host should encamp against me] See Psalms 3:6, See Trapp on " Psa 3:6 " We should propound the worst to ourselves (the best will bring with it, as we say), especially if we find our faith to be in heart and vigour, as here David's was.
Though war should rise against me] War is a complex evil, and is, therefore, called so by a specialty: Isaiah 45:7, "I make peace, and create evil," that is, war. Sin, Satan, and war have all one name, saith a learned divine; evil is the best of them: the best of sin is deformity; of Satan, enmity; of war, misery.
In this will I be confident] In this? In what? In this one ensuing petition, saith Aben Ezra; or, in this that I have said before, "The Lord is my light and my salvation"; in this confident gloriation of mine, which is such as an unbeliever is a perfect stranger unto.