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2He brought me up{H8686)} also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set{H8686)} my feet upon a rock, and established{H8790)} my goings.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)In these verses we have, I. The great distress and trouble that the psalmist had been in. He had been plunged into a horrible pit and into miry clay (Ps. 40:2), out of which he could not work himself, and in which he found himself sinking yet further. He says nothing here either of the sickness of his body or the insults of his enemies, and therefore we have reason to think it was some inward disq…
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