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6I call to remembrance{H8799)} my song in the night: I commune{H8799)} with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search{H8762)}.
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Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: …
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We have here the lively portraiture of a good man under prevailing melancholy, fallen into and sinking in that horrible pit and that miry clay, but struggling to get out. Drooping saints, that are of a sorrowful spirit, may here as in a glass see their own faces. The conflict which the psalmist had with his griefs and fears seems to have been over when he penned this record of it; for he says (Ps.…
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