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Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for ever sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while those increase tha have no vent given them. David in great alarm. We may well suppose his to be so, upon the breaking out of Absalom's conspiracy, and the falling away of the people. Horror overwhelmed him. Probably the remembrance of his sin in the matter of Uriah added much to the terror When under a guilty conscience we must mourn in our complaint, and eve strong believers have for a time been filled with horror. But none eve was so overwhelmed as the holy Jesus, when it pleased the Lord to pu him to grief, and to make his soul an offering for our sins. In his agony he prayed more earnestly, and was heard and delivered; trustin in him, and following him, we shall be supported under, and carrie through all trials. See how David was weary of the treachery an ingratitude of men, and the cares and disappointments of his hig station: he longed to hide himself in some desert from the fury an fickleness of his people. He aimed not at victory, but rest; a barre wilderness, so that he might be quiet. The wisest and best of men mos earnestly covet peace and quietness, and the more when vexed an wearied with noise and clamour. This makes death desirable to a chil of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world, to perfect and everlasting rest.
Original Hebrew
הקשׁיבה 7181 לי וענני 6030 אריד 7300 בשׂיחי 7879 ואהימה׃ 1949
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