56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. …
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 55-65)We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet’s breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Ps. 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comf…
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