12It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
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Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)We here find how David bore Shimei’s curses much better than he had borne Ziba’s flatteries. By the latter he was brought to pass a wrong judgment on another, by the former to pass a right judgment on himself. The world’s smiles are more dangerous than its frowns. Observe here, I. How insolent and furious Shimei was, and how his malice took occasion from David’s present distress to be so much the…
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