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5Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake{H8685)} to visit{H8800)} all the heathen: be not merciful{H8799)} to any wicked transgressors{H8802)}. Selah.
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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David’s house in the night, that they might seize him and kill him; we have the story 1 Sam. 19:11. It was when his hostilities against David were newly begun, and he had but just before narrowly escaped Saul’s javelin. These first eruptions of Saul’s mal…
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