My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
16. "In Thy hands" are "my lots" (ver. 15). In Thy power are my lots. For I see no desert for which out of the universal ungodliness of the human race Thou hast elected me particularly to salvation. And though there be with Thee some just and secret order in my election, yet I, from whom this is hid, have attained by lot unto my Lord's vesture. "Deliver me from the hands of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me,"
Lots. Roman Septuagint kleroi, as the same word, hittothai is rendered Judges xxi. 22. Others explain "times "with the Roman Psalter, in the same sense, to denote (Berthier) that all the vicissitudes of life, both prosperity and adversity, are at God's disposal. (Theodoret)
If he protects me, all my enemies will rage in vain. (Calmet)
