Psalm 119:43, Contrast between the Confidence in Verse 42 & that in Verse 43: Yahal: Patient Endurance
14-	This leads us to the second use of trust in Psalm 119.  Let me remind you of that passage:
Psalm 119:42 -	[CTL] May your lovingkindness also come to me, O Lord; Your deliverance according to your promise,
v 42 -		so that I shall have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I have confidence [ batach ] in Your Word.
v 43 -		Do not take the Word of truth out of my mouth, for I wait [ yahal ] for Your ordinances.
15-	The Hebrew word yahal refers to the trust one has in God and His Word during the period of testing, suffering, or trial.
16-	Principle: When you have confidence, batach, in the Word of God, dabar, then in the face of life’s exigencies you will have patience, yahal, to endure.
17-	Yahal refers to the third stage of the faith-rest drill in that while you face suffering you have unwavering confidence that you will be delivered.
18-	But in what does this warrior have patient confidence?  The New American Standard says “ordinances.”  The Hebrew word here is:
mishpat -	ordinance; justice
1)	Justice has to do with the administration of the law.  What is just is that which is in conformity with what the law demands.
2)	When the standards demanded by the law are violated, justice is restored by the impartial assignment of punishments.
3)	As our warrior prays for God’s deliverance, he appeals to divine justice, asserting that he will wait patiently for its imposition upon his enemy.

4)	The standards to which he appeals refer to ordinances contained in the Law’s establishment code.
5)	These Laws are a part of the eternal Logos and are backed by divine justice.  Our warrior hero appeals to that principle.
6)	Therefore there is an appeal for the Lord to impose a formal judgment upon his enemy through a legal decision rendered by the Supreme Court of Heaven.
7)	This would be a judgment based on the divine Law’s establishment code which is referred to as “ordinances.”
8)	Once punishment is assigned to one who violates the Law then justice is restored.
9)	Therefore, our warrior while in the face of unfair, unjust, and undeserved suffering chooses to appeal to the Supreme Court of Heaven for justice rather then to seek his own vengeance.
10)	This approach is in accordance with the mandate found in:
Leviticus 19:18 -	“You shall not take vengeance, nor bear a grudge against your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.  I am the Lord.”
11)	If the believer is not to take vengeance then how is justice to be restored?  From judgments imposed by the Supreme Court of Heaven of which Jesus Christ is Chief Justice.
Deuteronomy 32:35 -	“Vengeance is Mine and retribution.  In due time their foot will slip.  The day of their calamity is near.  Impending things are hastening upon them.”
12)	Justice comes from the Lord.  Deuteronomy 32:35 gives the rationale for our patient endurance under pressure.
13)	In due time, our adversary’s foot will slip thus his day of calamity is near for impending things hasten upon him.  Those “impending things” are divine justice.

14)	This entire approach to problem-solving between adversaries is the sum total of the Mosaic law itself, a point driven home by our Lord in the Incarnation.