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175Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
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Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. …
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. …
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. …
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 175)David’s heart is still upon praising God; and therefore, 1. He prays that God would give him time to praise him: “ Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee , that is, let my life be prolonged, that I may live to thy glory.” The reason why a good man desires to live is that he may praise God in the land of the living, and do something to his honour. Not, “Let me live and serve my country, live an…
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