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1A Song of degrees of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
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What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The people of God, being here called upon to praise God for their deliverance, are to take notice, I. Of the malice of men, by which they were reduced to the very brink of ruin. Let Israel say that there was but a step between them and death: the more desperate the disease appears to have been the more does the skill of the Physician appear in the cure. Observe, 1. Whence the threatening danger ca…
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