Prayer Night Sermon (Psalm 6 And Penitent Prayers)

Prayer Night Service on Psalm 6

Thank you for listening to the Shepherds Church podcast. This is our Wednesday night service that is focused on prayer and walking through the psalms together. We hope that you are blessed and we hope that you will join us as we pray for revival.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another prayer night service. I want to begin tonight by just simply asking a couple questions. Can you think of a time when fear or grief or guilt? Kept you from being able to sleep like it kept you awake on your bed.

Or can you think of a time when troubles of life or problems that you were facing so Deeply sapped your emotional spiritual and physical strength that you felt like you were paralyzed. How did you respond.

When that type of event happened to you or when those emotions overtook you, how did you respond? Well today we're gonna be looking at how David responds to these kinds of emotions. We've been in Psalm 1 through 5 for the last several weeks and we've talked about The wicked.

We talked about the righteous. We talked about how do we pray in the midst of troubles and travails and trials? Well today We're gonna be talking about a time in David's life where he is praying through maybe even his own sin.

Scholars are divided on this topic. Some say that Psalm 6 is about David's prayer over his sin. It's a penitent psalm which would make it the very first penitent psalm in the book so far and Then some other scholars believe that this is a prayer of anguish and a prayer of deliverance.

Because David is being assailed once more by his enemies no matter the case David is in very deep emotional distress in Psalm 6 and he's crying out to God and he's hoping and praying that the Lord will hear his prayer and by the end of the Psalm, he's confident that God really will hear his prayer.

This is an important psalm because it gives us who struggle with real emotions and we're sometimes we're up and sometimes we're down and we're all over the place and and you know, maybe we're joyful one moment We're in anguish or frustration the next this psalm gives us Words to be able to use or it gives us a voice to be able to express the struggles that we are having with to God.

It gives us a way to pray when we are suffering it gives us thoughts and ideas on how we can Come to the throne of grace and prayer. So what we're gonna do today is we're going to actually walk through the psalm and We're going to pray the same kinds of prayers that David prayed.

Now I just want to share a couple quotes with you real quick because I found these very interesting. Some godly scholars who were talking about this psalm. Derek Kidner is a great scholar of the Psalms.

This is what he said about Psalm 6. He says this psalm gives words To those who scarcely have the heart to pray. Have you ever felt like that? Where you were in such pain and frustration and bitterness and anxiety.

You were so dejected and fearful or frustrated that you didn't even feel like praying that you that you almost felt like that you couldn't Pray that you couldn't find the words. He's saying that this psalm gives words to those who scarcely have the heart to pray and It brings them within sight of victory and I love what Derek Kidner says there it brings us within sight of victory.

He doesn't say that when you pray. According to the format that is in Psalm 6 that by the end of it that you're going to be you're going to have victory. You might actually still be in anguish while you're praying.

You might be praying that prayer right now in the middle of a very difficult season a very difficult decision a very difficult Disease or frustration or whatever it is that that may be afflicting you right now.

And if it's not afflicting you right now, maybe it will be afflicting you very soon because all of us experience all kinds of different pain and trouble and trials in this life, so you may Be praying this prayer and thinking well, I don't feel any better at the end of it or maybe you've experienced that before in your past where you've prayed with earnestness and Anxiousness and and by the end of it, you still didn't feel any better.

You didn't feel any closer to God. You didn't feel any relief from your sorrows. Derek Kidner's pointing out that this psalm doesn't Promise that every time we pray that we will end up victorious. This psalm promises That God will bring us within sight of victory.

That God will show us where to find our victory that God will show us where victory can be had. And if you've lived this life long enough, you know that the Lord intentionally allows these seasons into our life to To make us rely on him to trust him to pray to him to yearn for him to cry out to him and Often God doesn't relieve us of these types of situations very quickly.

Sometimes he'll allow us to struggle for Weeks, maybe sometimes months. There's been some of us who have struggled with a particular thing for years. But the Lord does not allow these things into our life.

Precariously and for no purpose he does it because he loves us and he wants us to rely on him. And that's what Kidner's quote is pointing out. Second quote I would share with you is by C Hassle Bullock who wrote a great commentary on the Psalms that I use almost every week and this is what he said.

Psalm 6 provides both a connection to our pain and The confidence that the Lord hears us when we pray. So what he's saying is that God hears our prayer. He understands our prayer. He is saying that when we pray like David does in Psalm 6 that we are admitting that God Understands who we are and knows who we are and knows the things that we're going through but also in The midst of that that he hears our prayer.

That's the point of victory that Kidner was talking about is that God not only looks from afar and from a great distance and sees All the pain and the trial and the suffering that we are going through.

God comes near he comes near to us in our pain. We don't serve a God who sits up in heaven and Louvre and who's distant from all of our interactions and all of our things. He he didn't create the world and then let it go off on his own with no interaction.

No, we serve a God who draws near and we know that in Jesus Christ He came from heaven to earth and drew near to the people that he was gonna save. He's experienced the same pains and trials that they experienced.

He felt physical pain emotional pain mental pain spiritual pain. All in route to the cross where the cup of God's wrath was poured out on him for you. So we serve a Christ and we serve a God who is not unfamiliar with our suffering and is not unfamiliar with our pain.

But understands the things that we go through. That's the kind of God that we serve. So Bullock when he says that these the psalm provides a connection point to our pain. It really ought to remind us that we don't serve a far-off God who doesn't care for us.

We serve a God who loves us and who knows what it feels like to be in pain. Namely because he has in Jesus Christ. He was wounded. He was beaten. He was abused and if the physical brutality weren't bad enough God the father turned his face from Jesus Christ so that Jesus who knew no sin became sin and the spiritual agony that he underwent.

It's something we cannot even comprehend. We can comprehend is that Jesus went through those things and he is not unfamiliar with our struggles. So he can sympathize with us in our weakness, that's the point and.

Also, you know as we close today, we will talk about the second point. There's two points in the psalm that we pray. Prayers of agony knowing that God understands and we pray prayers of confidence knowing that God hears.

That's the second point. So we will go through that. That's the way that we will approach this psalm. So what I want us to do right off the top is to read the psalm. Then we will pray and we will approach this psalm in those two particular categories, so this is what the psalm says.

David's Prayer of Agony in Psalm 6

Lord do not rebuke me in your anger. Nor chasten me in your wrath. Be gracious to me Lord for I am pining away Heal me. Oh Lord for my bones are dismayed that word dismayed there means terrified or shaking and And my soul is greatly dismayed but you Oh Lord how long.

Return. Oh Lord rescue my soul save me because of your loving-kindness for there is No mention of you in death and she'll who will give you. Thanks and then he goes to Say here on earth. I am weary with my sighing.

Every night I make my bed swim with tears my I dissolve my couch with my tears. My eyes have wasted away with grief and it has become old because of all my adversaries. Depart from me all of you who do iniquity for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

The Lord has heard my supplication. The Lord receives my prayer and all of my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed. They shall turn back. They will suddenly be ashamed. Let's pray Lord. We thank you that there is no emotion and No pain and no sorrow and no joy and no happiness that are not Perfectly described in your word Lord.

We thank you for for your servant David who is our Great great grandfather in the faith. We thank you that he Rightly and accurately and faithfully described the ways that he felt so that we can understand that emotions are normal and that in Our pain and sorrows that we can cry out to you.

And Lord, I just pray very simply that as we look through Psalm 6 tonight. That we will catch a glimpse of these two categories and then we would understand them. Well that we can express our anguish to you because you understand and We can expect you to answer our prayers because of Jesus Christ those two things Lord, I pray that you would help us to understand Tonight and that's in Christ's name.

Amen. All right. So the first category is prayers of anguish and that's Psalm 6 verses 1 through 7 and Several different things are happening here that lets us know that that David is really in deep deep distress.

The first thing that he does is he uses personal pronouns to describe the intensity of the pain that he's feeling. He says do not rebuke me. Do not chasten me. Be gracious to me. He says I am the one who's pining away.

My bones are shaking. My soul is quaking. I me my do you hear the personal pronouns that David is using to describe the intensity of his pain? He's saying I'm not talking about somebody else who has felt this way once upon a time.

I'm saying that I feel this way. I Am the one who's struggling right now. I am the one who is broken right now. I am the one that needs God more now than I've ever needed God before that's the kind of prayer that David is crying out and we see that even in the Pronouns that he uses that there's an intensity that David is evoking here because he's in distress.

He's in anxiety and anguish and he wants more than anything for for God to hear his prayer. That's that that's his heart. He wants God to hear his prayer. Second thing that he does is he describes certain metaphors for his anguish.

He's not only using personal pronouns to describe that. Hey, this really does apply to me. I'm not talking about anyone else here. I'm I'm burying my heart here. This is my anguish my sorrow my pain, but he also uses metaphors for his anguish metaphors for death.

Metaphors for his weariness and metaphors for the tears that he is feeling. So let's look at how he talks about death. It's very interesting. He says there's no mention of you in death and there's no thanks in Sheol.

What is he talking about here? Well Sheol was an Old Testament concept and it was sort of conceived as a kind of underworld the world which is. In the Septuagint which is the Old Testament in Greek it was described as Hades.

Sheol is where persons were believed to exist in a sort of semi-life state where they were sort of alive. But also dead they were at rest, but they were also Dead kind of like the princess bride says they were only mostly dead.

That's sort of the idea. I guess you could say now They were not in a state of joy. They didn't have the kind of fullness of life that other people have who are actually living on earth. So death was a thing that in the Old Testament was actually dreaded the psalmist fears death all throughout the the Psalms.

Because it's the state where he's gonna be separated from God. There's in his view. There's there's neither memory of God. There's neither praise of God. There's there's no joy that he can have. So what David is talking about is I don't want to die.

Because that is the time that I can no longer cry out to you. I can no longer Pray to you. I can no longer Plead and ask for you to answer my prayers that there's no memory no mention of you in death and there's no thanks in Sheol now again the Topic or the theological doctrine that you could say Covers this idea of Sheol is very fascinating.

It's very deep. But all you need to understand is that David is Saying that it's sort of the realm of the dead for the Old Testament before Jesus dies and raises up all the Old Testament Saints it is a time of rest.

It is not a time of praising. You can think of it almost as sleep or someone being in a coma where they're not responding to anything they're literally laying in the ground and It is an Old Testament thing that when Christ raises from the dead there is no more Sheol.

There is heaven and hell and that is it. Sheol has been Emptied because of Christ. Now more could obviously be said on that. But I think that's enough to say that David who comes hundreds of years before Jesus is afraid to die.

Because he's afraid to leave the world Where he can relate to God where he can pray to God where he can spend time crying out to God and asking him to Relieve him of his pain. David has just said that his bones are in agony.

David has said that he's pining away and that his his soul is in this great amount of distress. So he's saying I think that it's better that I'm in this sort of State of depression and anxiety and all of these things because at least now I can cry out to you at least now I can pray to you at least now I can use the time that you've given me to cry out to you because in death we sleep and There is no mention of you in Sheol.

That's what David is getting at now. Of course as Christians that reality is not the same for us because when Jesus died and purchased us yes, our physical bodies are gonna lay in the grave, but Unlike David who did not have the same reality that we have today at least not at first When Christ died and resurrected and promised that when we die, we will be with him our soul Goes to be with Jesus when we die our body stays in the ground so whatever that looks like whatever reality or existence it is for us to be a Disembodied spirit or a disembodied soul.

That's the kind of relationship that we're gonna have with Jesus right when we die. When Jesus returns and when Jesus calls all of the bodies out of the grave and he calls them up into the heavens and our Bodies are our newly created Bodies that have no more sin.

No more curse. No more pain. No more. They're brand new. When that body collides with our soul, then we will be in the final stage of redemption. Which is where we live in New Jerusalem the new heavens the new earth with Jesus forever.

So heaven as We typically think about it is not the final stop on our journey. Heaven is a temporary place where We where our soul exists with Jesus until Jesus reunites our body and our soul together.

And that's where we live a physical existence with him in the new heaven in the new earth. It's glorious I go through all of that because David did not have that reality right in front of him. When David died his body and his soul went down to Sheol His body was dead his soul was in a sort of slumber or in a sort of Sleepfulness or slothfulness or or it was it was just a sleep.

I guess is the only way to say it and there's some level of Grace that we have to extend each other on the Old Testament concept of Sheol because it's not entirely clear What was happening? But David is fearful of whatever that is because he's not going to have the same intimate walk and intimate Relationship and closeness that with God that he has even in the pains and the travails of life and there's some beautiful things that we can Learn from that.

David is saying that it's better to go through pain with God Than to have rest and peace without God that that's a really strong point that David is making here. It is better to go through the worst afflictions the worst pain the worst trial the most excruciating Seasons of our life that is better to go through those with God Than to be separated from God and have peace and tranquility, which is what everybody wants.

Everybody wants peace in their life. Everybody wants calmness. Everybody wants Tranquility and all of that. But David is saying that that is a terror to his body and to his soul. Because even in the pain, it's better because he can know God he can be with God.

What a beautiful example for you and I Who go through lots of pain? We can know that those moments are better Because we know God we would rather have that we would rather go through cancer. We would rather go through Lou Gehrig's disease.

We would rather be paralyzed. We would rather I mean all of these things I'm mentioning are physical. We would rather go through all kinds of different pain and suffering in this life mental emotional physical whatever you want to call it.

We would rather go through those things with God than to have everything else without him. That is a true statement and That's sort of the metaphor that David I think is getting after when he's talking about Sheol and death.

The second metaphor that he uses is a Metaphor of weariness. He says that I am weary of sighing. That I'm literally growing tired of how tired I am of this situation and Clearly that resonates with all of us.

There's seasons of our life where where we are tired of being tired of something. Where we have grown so frustrated with how frustrated we are all of us can relate to this. David is saying that that is exactly the place that I'm at.

I am annoyed by how annoying this situation is and I'm in pain and I want it to end and Lord Where are you? Return God rescue my soul. That's what he says in verse 4 rescue me in your loving-kindness.

That's the second metaphor. The third is he gives some interesting and beautiful metaphors for tears. They're vivid in their description. He says he made he's talking about he made that his bed his bed swim in tears.

Can you have me just think about that kind of agony that David is describing here. I am laying on my bed and I'm crying so forcefully and so Much so much volume is streaming out of my eyes. That my room is now filled with water.

My bed is floating. That's what David is saying. Obviously, it's hyperbole. But he's trying to get us to understand that this is not a moment where I have all my stuff together. This is a moment where I am broken and I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do other than just cry my eyes out. That's the way David is feeling and I think it's important to recognize that David. Although I think some unstable people who read the Bible and just make assumptions about it.

Without really thinking very carefully David is not a depressed person. David is not. I've heard even people call him Bipolar that he's all over the place emotionally and he it's almost like he's this unrestrained emotional Person who's addicted to his feelings or you know?

He's just a train wreck and he's up and down. David was was a man who fought to worship God. He's a man who was more stable than any of us could have ever imagined. He was joyful. He was passionate. He was vigorous.

The one thing that we can say is that David wasn't lazy. And that may be what makes him look so inconsistent in the Psalms at times is because you and I will Sit in our suffering. We will sit in our grief.

We will we won't fight for holiness and we won't fight for worship. David when he discerns pain in his own heart, he weeps over it and He runs after God and he says rescue me. My my bones are in agony.

David had no tolerance. For most of his life he had no tolerance for sitting down in disappointments and sin. He fought against it and often when you fight against your anxieties, they flame up even harder you see the only instability that we see in David is his persistence to fight his own pain and suffering and Depression and anxiety.

He was a man who grabbed himself and shook himself and said you listen to me. You are gonna believe in God. That's the kind of man that David was so in this agony and in this fight that he's having with himself.

He's saying he's being honest. My room is filled up with tears. My beds floating. That's sort of what he says my couch or another word for bed Is dissolved in tears meaning that it's so saturated with tears that it's no longer floating.

It's sinking then he says in verse 7 that my eyes have become washed away with grief. His eyes were aching and sore. And if you've ever cried Long periods of time or or very intense moments of of weeping.

You know what he you know what he means there how sore your own eyes can be just by being washed out with tears. David is saying that all of these things that are happening in my life have caused tremendous anxiety for me and I'm afraid I don't want to die like this.

I don't want to die so that I can lose this Intimacy that I have with God and this all of this this is verse 1 through 7 has led David to make 7 statements in these passages 7 actually. They're they're called imperatives in Hebrew and an imperative is sort of a command like if I if I tell my son Go take the trash out.

I'm not asking him. I am telling him. That's an imperative. That's a command. David is using the language of imperatives here, but he's doing it not to command God. He's doing it to plead with God. He's doing it to say Lord, please consider me and he does this seven times in these passages.

He pleads with God using seven different phrases that I want us to go through really quickly. The first one is do not rebuke me in your anger. That's first one David is saying I've sinned. Your anger is against me God.

There have been times where I've experienced suffering because of other people's sin and we talked about those in the previous weeks where people were attacking him like Absalom his son who's rising up against him and trying to overthrow his government.

David was suffering for someone else's sin in that moment and This is why earlier I said that this is a penitent psalm because David is not suffering because of someone else's evil. David right now is suffering because of his sin.

He's saying do not Rebuke me in your anger. Don't throw me away God I know that my sin is is Offensive to you and and it it inflames your holiness against me. Your wrath is stored up for people like me who disobey your word God.

I know that but please I'm begging you do not Rebuke me in your anger. David is concerned. David is fearful that God Being as righteous and as holy as he is Could end up Overlooking or turning his face away from David and that thought scares David more than anything.

That's entirely why he talks about Sheol and how there's no mention of God in death. David is saying I don't want to live a moment where you're not with me. That would be worse than death. Do we have that kind of heart when we When we approach God in prayer.

That it would be worse than death if if I lost intimacy with you. Do we cry out as the first thing that we pray? The very first line of our prayer like David does here God don't rebuke me in your anger and before we Begin to even say like okay.

Well, I don't really have anything that God is angry about. Well, you you don't know Yourself then because you've thought countless thoughts today that offend the holiness of God. You've you've driven in ways on the road that were that were not charitable.

You've spoken to people in ungracious tones. You've been rigid when you needed to be patient and kind and loving. You've thought things that you shouldn't have thought. You've made judgments about people that you shouldn't have made judgments about.

You've looked At someone and thought why are they this way and then you dismiss them as human beings? There is so much if you could see your own heart. That you have inflamed the Holy Wrath of God against you today yesterday and forever.

So when we look at David and we say this is again. This is why I say it's so foolish to say that David is an emotional basket case. David is right and we are wrong. If we don't feel the weight of our sin like David did it's not because he had Bipolar he was unstable.

It's because he was more stable than us and he understood better than us and he saw the holiness of God was a terror to his sin. All of us need to right now be praying to the Lord God. Don't rebuke me in your anger.

Forgive my sin don't hold it against me. And for those of us who are who are in Jesus we can say that David still is looking forward to the Messiah. He's looking forward to Jesus and he can't quite say that like we can say that but we can say that God has Not rebuked us in his anger because of Jesus Christ.

But that's not an excuse for us to go on sinning as Paul says in Romans 6 1 shall I go on sinning that grace may abound? Absolutely not. You see the cross was not meant to inoculate us of our grief over sin.

Far too many people treat the cross as. It's a get out of hell free card. I Look at David in Psalm 6. He's he's crying out to the Lord with passion and his tears are Overwhelming him because of his sin and because of his failure and because of his brokenness.

But I don't need to do that because I have Jesus. Well, I don't think That the cross was God. Telling you that sin is no longer important. I think that the cross actually was the opposite in saying that sin was so devastating that I have to send my one and only son.

The cross is more serious than even David understood is what the truth of the matter is. The fact that you and I don't weep over our sin is not a badge of honor for us as Christians. It's just not of Course we rest in the gospel and I'll say it this way our tears should be stronger than David's.

But our joys should be infinitely more fierce than David's as well. We know the answer to the question. That's that's Obvious. Jesus came and he died for our sins. Praise God. But when we examine David's joy in the Psalms We often don't have the kind of joy that he had and yet we know the Savior and we examine David's Sadness in the Psalms.

We often don't have his kind of sadness because we say well the gospel takes care of that. I don't think the gospel was meant to be an excuse for us to Overlook our sin and to overlook repentance and overlook sanctification and overlook the seriousness of the matter.

I think it was actually meant to intensify it. It was meant to intensify our sorrow over our sin because our sin killed Jesus. But it was also meant to intensify our joy because our Christ loved us so much they died for us even while we were enemies.

So far from muting our emotions, I think the cross actually magnifies our emotions. But that's the first thing that David pleads with God. Don't rebuke me in your anger and praise God for you and I that we will never be forsaken because of Christ He says.

And the second thing in verse 1 don't chase in me with divine fury. He's saying don't discipline me in your wrath. David is not saying that God should be fast and loose with justice. David is not saying that God is an unjust judge.

That is going to overlook his sin and his wickedness again a Judge who does that is a wicked awful judge and that is not who God is. So David is not asking for special a special plea and David's not asking for God to overlook his sin.

David is asking that God would not discipline him in his wrath. But he would discipline him in his covenantal love. The only way that David can pray that because all people deserve the wrath of God. All of us have fallen short of the glory of God all of us deserve the stored-up Fury of God for our sin in the day that you eat of the fruit God said in Genesis 1 you shall surely die.

So all of us deserve that. David can pray with a hopefulness towards the gospel that that one day God's one and only Son will come and he Will take the wrath of God so that David even in his anguish and even in his deservedness Will not drink that same cup.

He's appealing to God's covenantal love that God. Please don't pour out on me the cup of wrath that I deserve. David's even looking forward to the moment where Christ Will take the cup that he did not deserve.

That's the second thing that he says. The third is be gracious to me in my distress. David is saying that it's an act of grace. That God would comfort us in our sin. When our soul is withering and pining away out of sorrow and grief and guilt over our sin God owes us nothing but justice.

David is appealing to God for grace because he knows he doesn't deserve it and Again, this can be something that we so easily as modern-day Christians take for granted that yeah God shows me grace. God is gracious, and I'm a sinner and we work really well together.

I sin. God gives me grace. It's transactional. Well, you've got a perverted view of God. David understood the right view of God that God owes us nothing and If God is gracious it is by grace alone. It is undeserved unmerited favor that is that can only be given by the unadulterated Kindness of a perfect holy and loving God, that's it.

That's the only way you get grace. When you are lying down in your bed weeping like David because of your sin. You get grace because God is that good not because you deserve it. That's the third thing.

The fourth is he says heal me. Heal me O Lord for my bones are shattering or shaking or terrified. That's sort of the phrase that he uses there in verse 2 Heal me. We know that there's all kinds of things that we are praying that God would that would that God would heal us from there's emotional pain.

There's abandonment from from fathers and mothers who who treated us poorly there's there's actual physical things that we need to be delivered from like addictions or Physical abnormalities or diseases or things like that.

Mental things that that we need deliverance from. Maybe there's chemical imbalances that cause us to act in certain ways. Maybe there's physical things again, like blood pressure or different diseases that we're struggling with.

Maybe there's spiritual afflictions where we feel like God is not with us or present with us because of our sin. We've sinned and we feel like that God has left us and that and this really goes right to the heart of what the psalm Is saying that God has abandoned us that that God is not near us.

That's how David feels. David knows that it's not true, but he feels that way. He feels that God is that God has left him that he's chastened him in his wrath that he's rebuked him in his anger that He's that David is left on his couch pining away.

Crying all night long as his soul and his bones are shaking and then he cries out. He says how long O Lord the question is rhetorical it seems but the question is answered by how long O Lord Are you gonna be far from me?

How long are you gonna leave me here pining away in my misery. David knows that that's what he deserves. He knows that he doesn't deserve healing from God. But on the basis of God's character David can say please don't rebuke me God on the basis of God's character.

He can say please don't chasten me in your wrath on the basis of God's character. He can say please be gracious to me, even though I know I don't deserve it by knowing God's character. He can say heal me even though I know I deserve to wither away.

The fifth thing that he says is return to me, let me experience your presence again. He says return O Lord and rescue my soul. Save me because of your loving-kindness. David Wants more than anything to have his relationship with God reestablished reinvigorated.

He wants new life blown back into his relationship with God and that's what the final three statements say return to me. Rescue my soul and save me. That's what those things mean. And the question we really need to ask ourself is do we approach God that way today.

We who have Jesus Christ we who have the Savior we who've been Freed from our sin and our depravity and our failure. Do we pursue God that way like David? Where we cry out to him and say return to me O Lord.

I Can't stand the distance that I feel in our relationship. I know that the distance I feel in our relationship is because of me and it's because of my sin. It's not because of you. Look at the anxiety David says return to me and rescue me and save me.

Why because of your loving-kindness? David is appealing to the goodness of God that God will in his Grace and mercy and love and goodness will restore David again, even though David doesn't deserve it.

David's appealing to that because that's all he can appeal to he says these seven things. Don't rebuke me. Don't chasten me be gracious to me. Heal me return to me rescue my soul save me and none of that is based off David.