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26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)David, having denounced God’s wrath against his enemies, here takes God’s comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting. I. He pours out his complaint before God concerning the low condition he was in, which, probably, gave advantage to his enemies to insult over him: “ I am poor and needy , and therefore a proper object of pity, and one that needs and craves thy help.” 1.…
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