The cave-thoughts of David, and of David’s Son, for all in extremity 

David accounted his experience in the cave as a prison. Whether it was the cave of Adullam, or in the cave of Engedi, both occasions found him as a fugitive. Though overwhelmed with his circumstances, he still sought the Lord for help. 

There was none other to care for his state, and by this the plight of the Lord Jesus is prophetically highlighted: “And I looked and there was none to help, and there was none to uphold” (Isa.63:5). But he looked to the bounty of God, and the outcome for both David and Christ would be that the righteous would flock to them. And so it came to pass.

-Pastor Jeff O’ Neil

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Psalm 142

¹I with my voice cried to the LORD,
With it made my request:
²Pour’d out to him my plaint, to him
My trouble I exprest.

³When in me was o’erwhelm’d my sp’rit,
Then well thou knew’st my way;
Where I did walk a snare for me
They privily did lay.

⁴I look’d on my right hand, and view’d,
But none to know me were;
All refuge failed me, no man
Did for my soul take care.

⁵I cried to thee; I said, Thou art
My refuge, LORD, alone;
And in the land of those that live
Thou art my portion.

⁶Because I am brought very low,
Attend unto my cry:
Me from my persecutors save,
Who stronger are than I.

⁷From prison bring my soul, that I
Thy name may glorify:
The just shall compass me, when thou
With me deal’st bounteously.