Psalms 4:6

There be many that say, even in the little band of his faithful followers, Who will show us any good? Would it be possible for them to experience deliverance in this time of great trouble? It is the cry which is apt to come to the lips of the truest children of God when all hope seems to be cut off. Therefore David's urgent prayer now rises to the throne of Jehovah. Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us, in the blessing of God's kindness and mercy which He Himself had laid upon His children in the Aaronic benediction, Numbers 6:26. And so the pleading of David changes into a confident assertion.