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2But as for me, my feet were almost gone{H8804)}{H8675)}{H8803)}; my steps had well nigh slipped{H8795)}.

Psalms 73:2

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  • When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

  • He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

  • For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

  • For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  • Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-14)

This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of. “However it be, yet God is good.” Though wicked people receive many of the gifts of his providential bounty, yet we must own that he…

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