In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. The promise in 2 Samuel 7:1-29 was the answer to David's prayer, Psalms 21:2; Psalms 21:4; Psalms 61:5. His prayer was that his life might endure in the person of his seed. In Messiah "his name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun" (Psalms 72:17). As the first clause states the fact, so the second the manner how. "Strengthenedst me" - literally, 'thou madest me proud' х raahab (H7294)], not with the "pride" that "goeth before destruction," or the "haughty spirit" that goeth "before a fall," but through the strength of God, in which alone he glories (Psalms 18:29; Jeremiah 9:23-24).