Psalms 61:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

Psalms 61:7 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 40:11
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Genesis 24:27
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Psalms 41:12
And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Proverbs 20:28
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-8)

In these verses we may observe, I. With what pleasure David looks back upon what God had done for him formerly (Ps. 61:5): Thou, O God! hast heard my vows, that is, 1. “The vows themselves which I made, and with which I bound my soul: thou hast taken notice of them; thou hast accepted them, because made in sincerity, and been well pleased with them; thou hast been mindful of them, and put me in mi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-7. the king--himself and his royal line ending in Christ. Mercy and truth personified, as in Psa 40:11; 57:3.