7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. …
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)It is excellent doctrine that is preached in these verses, and of general concern and use to us all, and it does not appear to have any particular reference to the present state of Judah and Jerusalem. The prophet’s sermons were not all prophetical, but some of them practical; yet this discourse, which probably we have here only the heads of, would be of singular use to them by way of caution not…
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