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2Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)The title of this psalm and many others is as a key hung ready at the door, to open it, and let us into the entertainments of it; when we know upon what occasion a psalm was penned we know the better how to expound it. This was composed, or at least the substance of it was meditated and digested in David’s thought, and offered up to God, when he fled from Absalom his son, who formed a conspiracy a…
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