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3What time I am afraid{H8799)}, I will trust{H8799)} in thee.
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I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. …
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. …
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it, 1 Sam. 21:10 , 11 . Upon that occasion he changed his behaviour, but wi…
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