When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
When ... forsake me - "when," or 'since' х kiy (H3588)]. David's father and mother forsook him at all events at their death: even in their lifetime, being forced into exile with him (1 Samuel 22:1-3), they were unable to help or shelter him; possibly-such is the selfishness of man in misfortunes-they even blamed him as the cause of or shelter him; possibly-such is the selfishness of man in misfortunes-they even blamed him as the cause of his and their trials.
Take me up - as a child taken up from the street, and brought home after having been deserted by its parents who disown it х 'aacap (H622)]. Compare Judges 19:21; Joshua 20:4 - the elders shall "take" the manslayer "into" the city unto them." Compare Christ's gathering Jerusalem's children unto Him, "even, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings" (Matt. 33:37). The same Hebrew is translated (Psalms 26:9) "gather my soul:" so here, if we may unite the three ideas, the Lord will take me up, take me in, and finally gather me with his saints.