Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

35:22-26 Vindicate Me! Now the song returns to pray for vindication and deliverance. Verses 22-23 use vivid imagery, asking God to be not silent (as if he were complacent toward evil) and awake and rouse yourself (as if he were asleep); this shows how urgent the singer feels the situation to be. On vindicate (v. 24), see note on 26:1-3. God's righteousness, as often in the OT, is here his faithfulness in keeping his promises (also 35:28). Verse 26 is very similar to v. 4.