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3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here we have David’s professions of desire towards God and dependence on him. He often begins his psalms with such professions, not to move God, but to move himself, and to engage himself to answer those professions. I. He professes his desire towards God: Unto thee, O Lord! do I lift up my soul , Ps. 25:1. In the foregoing psalm (Ps. 24:4) it was made the character of a good man that he has not l…
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