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11Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
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In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)In these verses, I. We are earnestly exhorted, all of us, to repose our confidence in God, and not suffer our confidence in him to be shaken by the heathens’ insulting over us upon the account of our present distresses. It is folly to trust in dead images, but it is wisdom to trust in the living God, for he is a help and a shield to those that do trust in them , a help to furnish them with and for…
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