Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Title. - Michtam of David. Some derive Miktaam (H4387) from kaatam (H3799), gold-the golden (i:e., excellent) psalm, as Pythagoras' verses were called golden verses. This is scarcely borne out by the Hebrew. Hengstenberg better explains it as 'a secret:' a song conducting us into the depths of the divine life, that 'secret of the Lord which is with them that fear Him' [from kaatam, to conceal].
I. Declaration of trust, not in his own goodness, much less in idols, but in God, as the only and blessed portion (Psalms 16:1-7).
II. Certainty of everlasting salvation to soul and flesh grounded on that trust (Psalms 16:8-11).
Preserve me, O God - who am in imminent danger.
For in thee do I put my trust. Trust in God is the strongest argument why God should hear prayer for deliverance (Psalms 25:20).