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14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
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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