Remaining Chapters
5Why art thou cast down{H8709)}, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted{H8799)} in me? hope{H8685)} thou in God: for I shall yet praise{H8686)} him for the help of his countenance.
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Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. …
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.
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase: now here we have some of the expressions of that love. Here is, I. Holy love thirsting, love upon the wing, soaring upwards in holy desires towards the Lord and towards the remembrance of his name ( P…
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