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19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-19)The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (2 Sam. 22:1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician , or precentor, in the temple-songs. Note, The private compositions of good men, designed by them for their own use, may be serviceable to the public, that others may not only borrow light from their candle, but heat from their fire. Exampl…
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