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25DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
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Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)Here is, I. David’s complaint. We should have thought his soul soaring to heaven; but he says himself, My soul not only rolls in the dust, but cleaves to the dust , which is a complaint either, 1. Of his corruptions, his inclination to the world and the body (both which are dust), and that which follows upon it, a deadness to holy duties. When he would do good evil was present with him . God intim…
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