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3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. …
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. …
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. …
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;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)In this part of the psalm we have, I. A general account of David’s experience, and his pious resolutions ( Ps. 116:1 , 2 ), which are as the contents of the whole psalm, and give an idea of it. 1. He had experienced God’s goodness to him in answer to prayer: He has heard my voice and my supplications . David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is,…
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