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8I would hasten{H8686)} my escape from the windy storm{H8801)} and tempest.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. …
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! …
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)In these verses we have, I. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore and a relief to the spirit under every burden: Give ear to my prayer, O God ! Ps. 55:1 , 2 . He does not set down the petitions he offered up to God in his distress, but begs that God would hear the prayers which, at every period, his heart lifted up to God, and grant an answer of peace to them: Attend to me, hear me . Sau…
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