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12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
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Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)David here, upon the foregoing representation of the inhumanity and impiety of the oppressors, grounds an address to God, wherein observe, I. What he prays for. 1. That God would himself appear (Ps. 10:12): “ Arise, O Lord! O God! lift up thy hand , manifest thy presence and providence in the affairs of this lower world. Arise, O Lord ! to the confusion of those who say that thou hidest thy face.…
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