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6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Psalms 142:6

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

  • The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

  • Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

  • A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

  • Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Commentary

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

(vv. 4-7)

The psalmist here tells us, for our instruction, 1. How he was disowned and deserted by his friends, Ps. 142:4. When he was in favour at court he seemed to have a great interest, but when he was made an out-law, and it was dangerous for any one to harbour him (witness Ahimelech’s fate), then no man would know him , but every body was shy of him. He looked on his right hand for an advocate (Ps. 109…

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