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7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down{H8685)} the people, O God.

Psalms 56:7

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

  • Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

  • Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

  • Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. …

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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