Remaining Chapters
1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God is for them, and to him they may apply as to one that is pleased to concern himself for them. Thus David here. I. He refers himself to God’s judgment (Ps. 109:1): “ Hold not thy peace , but let my sentence come forth from thy presence , Ps. 17:2. Delay not to give judgment upon the appeal made to thee.” God saw wha…
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