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23Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
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In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-26)God’s everlasting mercy is here celebrated, 1. In the redemption of his church, Ps. 136:23 , 24 . In the many redemptions wrought for the Jewish church out of the hands of their oppressors (when, in the years of their servitude, their estate was very low, God remembered them, and raised them up saviours, the judges, and David, at length, by whom God gave them rest from all their enemies), but espe…
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