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5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. …
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)This psalm teaches us, I. To stay ourselves upon God as a God of power and a God all-sufficient for us. David did so and found the benefit of it. 1. We must not rely upon creatures, upon men and means, instruments and second causes, nor make flesh our arm: “ Shall I lift up my eyes to the hills ?”—so some read it. “Does my help come thence? Shall I depend upon the powers of the earth, upon the str…
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