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4The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
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The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-7)The shaking of a tree (they say) makes it take the deeper and faster root. The attempt of David’s enemies to discourage his confidence in God engages him to cleave so much the more closely to his first principles, and to review them, which he here does, abundantly to his own satisfaction and the silencing of all temptations to infidelity. That which was shocking to his faith, and has been so to th…
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