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12For innumerable evils have compassed{H8804)} me about: mine iniquities have taken hold{H8689)} upon me, so that I am not able{H8804)} to look up{H8800)}; they are more{H8804)} than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth{H8804)} me.

Psalms 40:12

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  • For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

  • They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

  • The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-17)

The psalmist, having meditated upon the work of redemption, and spoken of it in the person of the Messiah, now comes to make improvement of the doctrine of his mediation between us and God, and therefore speaks in his own person. Christ having done his Father’s will, and finished his work, and given orders for the preaching of the gospel to every creature, we are encouraged to come boldly to the t…

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