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9Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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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.
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)In these verses, I. David gives God thanks for the audience of his prayers as affectionately as a few verses before he had begged it: Blessed be the Lord , Ps. 28:6. How soon are the saints’ sorrows turned into songs and their prayers into praises! It was in faith that David prayed (Ps. 28:2), Hear the voice of my supplications ; and by the same faith he gives thanks (Ps. 28:6) that God has heard…
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