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7For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
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And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
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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