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3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
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Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Whether it was in the cave of Adullam , or that of Engedi , that David prayed this prayer, is not material; it is plain that he was in distress. It was a great disgrace to so great a soldier, so great a courtier, to be put to such shifts for his own safety, and a great terror to be so hotly pursued and every moment in expectation of death; yet then he had such a presence of mind as to pray this pr…
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