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6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
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Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. …
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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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