6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. …
The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
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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