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2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
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I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; …
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)David here cuts out to himself and others a pattern both of a good magistrate and a good master of a family; and, if these were careful to discharge the duty of their place, it would contribute very much to a universal reformation. Observe, I. The chosen subject of the psalm (Ps. 101:1): I will sing of mercy and judgment , that is, 1. Of God’s mercy and judgment, and then it looks back upon the di…
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