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92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. …
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. …
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 92)Here is, 1. The great distress that David was in. He was in affliction, and ready to perish in his affliction , not likely to die, so much as likely to despair; he was ready to give up all for gone, and to look upon himself as cut off from God’s sight; he therefore admires the goodness of God to him, that he had not perished, that he kept the possession of his own soul, and was not driven out of h…
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