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2Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Psalms 5:2

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

  • I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

  • David's Psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

  • For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

  • Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

The title of this psalm has nothing in it peculiar but that it is said to be upon Nehiloth , a word nowhere else used. It is conjectured (and it is but a conjecture) that is signifies wind —instruments, with which this psalm was sung, as Neginoth was supposed to signify the stringed —instruments. In Ps. 5:1-6 David had an eye to God, I. As a prayer-hearing God; such he has always been ever since m…

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