12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. …
Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. …
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We left Jehoshaphat, in the foregoing chapter, well employed in reforming his kingdom and providing for the due administration of justice and support of religion in it, and expected nothing but to hear of the peace and prosperity of his reign; but here we have him in distress, which distress, however, was followed by such a glorious deliverance as was an abundant recompence for his piety. If we me…
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