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1A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)In these verses we have Solomon’s address to God for his favour to him and to his government, and his acceptance of his building a house to God’s name. Observe, I. What he pleads—two things:— 1. That what he had done was in pursuance of the pious vow which his father David had made to build a house for God. Solomon was a wise man, yet pleads not any merit of his own: “I am not worthy, for whom tho…
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