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1A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace{H8799)}, and be not still{H8799)}, O God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; …
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The Israel of God were now in danger, and fear, and great distress, and yet their prayer is called, A song or psalm ; for singing psalms is not unseasonable, no, not when the harps are hung upon the willow-trees. I. The psalmist here begs of God to appear on the behalf of his injured threatened people (Ps. 83:1): “ Keep not thou silence, O God ! but give judgment for us against those that do us an…
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