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

73:21-28 You Keep Me Near You, and That Is What I Need. The final section begins by noting what the singer was like when he harbored his bitter thoughts: I was like a beast toward you. And yet God still had his firm hold on his faithful servant: I am continually with you; you hold my right hand (which is why he brought the singer into the sanctuary, v. 17). Verse 24 sums up the confidence: during the singer's earthly life, you guide me with your counsel (i.e., with instruction from God's Word), and afterward (i.e., after the singer dies) you will receive me to glory (the heavenly honor that awaits the faithful). Thus the godly can be satisfied, because they are near God, and thus they have him as the strength of their heart and their portion forever, while the arrogant are now far from God and will remain far from him forever.