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3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)This psalm is entitled Maschil , which some take to be only the name of the tune to which it was set and was to be sung. But others think it is significant; our margin reads it, A psalm of David giving instruction , and there is nothing in which we have more need of instruction than in the nature of true blessedness, wherein it consists and the way that leads to it—what we must do that we may be h…
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