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23Stir up thyself, and awake{H8685)} to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-28)In these verses, as before, I. David describes the great injustice, malice, and insolence, of his persecutors, pleading this with God as a reason why he should protect him from them and appear against them. 1. They were very unrighteous; they were his enemies wrongfully, for he never gave them any provocation: They hated h 2be1 im without a cause ; nay, for that for which they ought rather to have…
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