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143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. …
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 143-144)These two verses are almost a repetition of the two foregoing verses, but with improvement. 1. David again professes his constant adherence to God and his duty, notwithstanding the many difficulties and discouragements he met with. He had said (Ps. 119:141), I am small and despised , and yet adhere to my duty. Here he finds himself not only mean, but miserable, as far as this world could make him…
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