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2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
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I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)In these verses David is very earnest in prayer. I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him, now that, in his distress, he called upon him, Ps. 28:1 , 2 . Observe his faith in prayer: O Lord, my rock , denoting his belief of God’s power (he is a rock) and his dependence upon that power—“He is my rock , on whom I build my hope.” Observe his fervency in prayer: “ To thee will I cry ,…
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