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6And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
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And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)We have, in these verses, an account of three several states that David was in successively, and of the workings of his heart towards God in each of those states—what he said and did, and how his heart stood affected; in the first of these we may see what we are too apt to be, and in the other two what we should be. I. He had long enjoyed prosperity, and then he grew secure and over-confident of t…
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