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6Thou hast laid{H8804)} me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
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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