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63:9-11 Those Who Seek My Life Will Fail, but I Will Rejoice. Now the song explains where the troubles came from: those who seek to destroy my life. In David's experience (as in the title), these were Israelites who rebelled against God's choice of David as king. In order to apply this psalm, the ordinary believer should observe the analogy: these are people hostile to God's purposes, especially hostile to the house of David (and Christians follow David's heir, Jesus). The confidence is that these people will fail in their goal of destroying God's faithful. (If the setting is Absalom's revolt, then the power of the sword was fulfilled literally [2 Sam. 18:6-8]; again, ordinary believers should use analogy to apply this.) The king (i.e., David), and those who adhere to him, will not fall prey to these enemies but shall rejoice in God, because when the mouths of liars are stopped, God's love and faithfulness are clearly on display.