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3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
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Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled under humbling providences, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent on purpose to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Those heap up wrath who cry not when God binds them; but those are getting ready for mercy who, under God’s rebukes, sow in tears, as David does here. Let us observe here, I. The representation he…
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