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5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
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The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: …
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)David here lays down this great doctrine, That the God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of us, and that all the motions and actions both of our inward and of our outward man are naked and open before him. I. He lays down this doctrine in the way of an address to God; he says it to him, acknowledging it to him, and giving him the glory of it. Divine truths look fully as well when the…
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