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7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

Psalms 12:7

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

  • The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

  • The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

  • And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

  • Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amos 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves with such suitable meditations and prayers as are here got ready to our hand. I. Let us see here what it is that makes the times bad, and when they may be said to be so. Ask the children of this world…

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