Therefore it was none other than God whom David too implored for his deliverance: When I was in trouble, I called on the Lord, and he heard me; deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. To him also giving thanks he spoke the words of the song in the seventeenth psalm [LXX], in the day in which the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, saying, I will love you, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my strong rock and my defense and deliverer.^[1] And Paul, after enduring many persecutions, to none other than God gave thanks, saying, Out of them all the Lord delivered me; and he, in whom we trust, will deliver me.^[2]