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10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)David in these verses expresses, I. His desire towards God, in many petitions. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. 1. He humbly bespeaks, because he firmly believes he shall have, a gracious audience: “ Hear, O Lord, when I cry , not only with my heart, but, as one in earnest, with my voice too .” He bespeaks als…
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