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20Have respect{H8685)} unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full{H8804)} of the habitations of cruelty.
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. …
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)The psalmist here, in the name of the church, most earnestly begs that God would appear fro them against their enemies, and put an end to their present troubles. To encourage his own faith, he interests God in this matter (Ps. 74:22): Arise, O God! plead thy own cause . This we may be sure he will do, for he is jealous for his own honour; whatever is his own cause he will plead it with a strong ha…
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