3I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
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And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. …
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. …
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The prophet is here singing of judgment and mercy, I. Of judgment upon the enemies of God’s church (Isa. 27:1), tribulation to those that trouble it , 2 Thess. 1:6. When the Lord comes out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth (Isa. 26:21), he will be sure to punish leviathan , the dragon that is in the sea , every proud oppressing tyrant, that is the terror of the mighty, and, like…
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