Return, O LORD, Deliver Me!

"What a sudden change [in verse 9] is here for the better! He that was groaning, and weeping, and giving up all for gone, looks and speaks very pleasantly. Having made his requests known to God, and lodged his case with him, he is very confident the issue will be good and his sorrow is turned into joy…. He assures himself that God was, and would be, propitious to him, notwithstanding the present intimations of wrath which he was under. He is confident of a gracious answer to this prayer which he is now making. While he is yet speaking, he is aware that God hears, and therefore speaks of it as a thing done, and repeats it with an air of triumph…. By the workings of God's grace upon his heart he knew his prayer was graciously accepted, and therefore did not doubt but it would in due time be effectually answered. His tears had a voice, a loud voice, in the ears of the God of mercy…. Silent tears are not speechless ones. His prayers were cries to God…. Thence he infers the like favorable audience of all his other prayers: 'He has heard the voice of my supplication, and therefore he will receive my prayer; for he gives, and does not upbraid….'" – Matthew Henry