Psa 118:5 In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and he answered by setting me free.

Lit. In my anguish I cried to Jah-the Lord has become my salvation and Yah answered me. So the Psalmist is teaching that the ultimate experience of freedom is winning a war. The practical event of war is exercised in the curse.

God created all things and gave man the rulers hip of the earth. But God responded to the rebellion in the garden by cursing all creation. But God reestablished man's ability to control the earth in pronouncements that cannot be thwarted.

The Psalmist describes the struggle with the opposition in the medaphor of the rising of the ocean waves. He pronounces the law in order to present his complaint of the wicked nations and speaks the curse as God's anger is expressed in rising up like the waves of the sea This is why his wish to fight and overcome the nation's is expressed in asking God to rise up.

The Psalmist is teaching that God responds in rising up in the curse as the Jah the Lord becomes my salvation with Yah the soveriegn God who acts. The highest form of freedom that is experienced in the Christian life is God rising up in the curse to overcome our enemies. The Psalmist praises God for making him stout hearted.

There is a sense by experience as we seeking God in the pronouncements that He seeks us. We are drawn into conflict with the opposition in which we are made desperate to experience Jah. We are rising up in the pronouncements until we have Yah. We experience freedom.