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25With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
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Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? …
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? …
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)Here, I. David reflects with comfort upon his own integrity, and rejoices in the testimony of his conscience that he had had his conversation in godly sincerity and not with fleshly wisdom, 2 Cor. 1:12. His deliverances were an evidence of this, and this was the great comfort of his deliverances. His enemies had misrepresented him, and perhaps, when his troubles continued long, he began to suspect…
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