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29But I am poor and sorrowful{H8802)}: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high{H8762)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. …
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-29)These imprecations are not David’s prayers against his enemies, but prophecies of the destruction of Christ’s persecutors, especially the Jewish nation, which our Lord himself foretold with tears, and which was accomplished about forty years after the death of Christ. The first two verses of this paragraph are expressly applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews by the apostle ( Ps.…
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