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4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. …
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. …
Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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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