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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.
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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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