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2If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
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Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. …
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! …
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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