2O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; …
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Here we have, I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa. 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of. He had spoiled the people of God, and made a prey of them, and herein had broken his treaty of peace with them, and dealt treacherously. Truth and mercy are two such sacred things, and have so much of God in them…
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