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114Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
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He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. …
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 114)Here is, 1. God’s care of David to protect and defend him, which he comforted himself with when his enemies were very malicious against him: Thou art my hiding-place and my shield . David, when Saul pursued him, often betook himself to close places for shelter; in war he guarded himself with his shield. Now God was both these to him, a hiding-place to preserve him from danger and a shield to prese…
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