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13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. …
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)We may observe, in these verses, I. What David prays for. Being compassed about with enemies that sought his life, he prays to God to preserve him safely through all their attempts against him, to the crown to which he was anointed. This prayer is both a prediction of the preservation of Christ through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted st…
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