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154Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 153-154)Here, I. David prays for succour in distress. Isa. any afflicted? let him pray ; let him pray as David does here. 1. He has an eye to God’s pity, and prays, “ Consider my affliction ; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned.” God is never unmindful of his people’s afflictions, but he will have us to put him in remembrance (Isa. 43:26), to sprea…
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