Remaining Chapters
1To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, …
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. …
Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The title of the psalm acquaints us that David, having penned it by divine inspiration for the use of the church, delivered it to the chief musician, or master of the song, who (according to the divine appointment of psalmody made in his time, which he was chiefly instrumental in the establishment of) presided in that service. We have a particular account of the constitution, the modelling of the…
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