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5. The waves of death. “The sorrows of death” (Ps. 18:4). David is here thinking of the dangers pressing about him, ever ready to engulf him as with a flood.

Floods of ungodly men. Literally, “the floods of Belial”—a personification of destructive wickedness. The “torrents of perdition” (RSV) were constantly sweeping about David, seeming to cut off every means of escape. He realized that Satan was warring against both his life and his soul, and that evil men, used as tools of the evil one, were ever arrayed against him.

Made me afraid. Even the greatest heroes are at times haunted by fear.