lit. In my grief I cried out to Yah - Yahweh has become my salvation and Yahweh has answered me. So the psalmist teaches that the ultimate experience of freedom is winning the war. The practical event of war is exercised in the curse.God created all things and gave man the rulers of the earth.In response to the rebellion in the garden, God cursed all creation. However, through pronouncements that cannot be thwarted, God has reestablished humanity's ability to control the earth.The Psalmist uses the metaphor of the rising of the ocean waves to describe the struggle with the opposition. 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, in contrast to the pagan gods who respond to curses by becoming weaker, Yahweh the God of Israel becomes stronger when He rises up in response to curses. This experience of freedom is the highest form of spiritual empowerment that a Christian can experience. The Psalmist praises Yahweh for making him strong-willed.There is a sense by experience that we are seeking God in the pronouncements that He seeks us. We are drawn into conflict with the opposition which we are made desperate to experience Jah. We are rising up in the pronouncements until we have Yah. We experience freedom.