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4I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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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.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)It should seem, by the titles of this and the following psalm, that Heman was the penman of the one and Ethan of the other. There were two, of these names, who were sons of Zerah the son of Judah, 1 Chron. 2:4 , 6 . There were two others famed for wisdom, 1 Kgs. 4:31; where, to magnify Solomon’s wisdom, he is said to be wiser than Heman and Ethan . Whether the Heman and Ethan who were Levites and…
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