2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Solomon’s design, in driving us off from the world, by showing us its vanity, is to drive us to God and to our duty, that we may not walk in the way of the world, but by religious rules, nor depend upon the wealth of the world, but on religious advantages; and therefore, I. He here sends us to the house of God , to the place of public worship, to the temple, which he himself had built at a vast ex…
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