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6I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

Psalms 140:6

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

  • But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

  • CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

  • I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

  • And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

In this , as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colo…

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