Chapter 55

1
Give Ps 5:1, Ps 17:1, Ps 64:1, Ps 80:1, Ps 84:8; 1Pet 3:12

hide Ps 28:1, Ps 80:4, Ps 143:7; Lam 3:8


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I mourn Ps 13:1-2, Ps 32:3, Ps 38:6, Ps 43:2, Ps 102:9-10; Isa 38:14


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oppression Ps 12:5, Ps 54:3, Ps 73:8; Lam 3:34-36

for they Ps 27:12, Ps 35:11; 2Sam 15:3, 2Sam 16:7-8, 2Sam 19:19; Matt 26:59


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My Ps 6:3, Ps 69:20, Ps 88:3, Ps 102:3-5; Matt 26:37-38; Mark 14:33-34; John 12:27; 2Cor 1:8-10

terrors Ps 18:4-5, Ps 116:3; Isa 38:10-13; Heb 5:7


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Fearfulness Ps 119:120; 2Sam 15:14; Job 6:4, Job 23:15-16

horror Ps 42:6, Ps 61:2, Ps 88:15-16; Luke 22:44

overwhelmed Heb. covered


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Ps 11:1, Ps 139:9; Rev 12:14


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1Sam 27:1; 2Sam 15:14, 2Sam 17:21-22; Prov 6:4-5; Jer 9:2, Jer 37:12


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the windy storm From the sweeping wind and tempest, - Absalom and his rebellious party. Ps 18:4; Isa 17:12-13; Matt 7:25-27


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divide That is, "Distract their counsels; and let their devices be confounded" - and the prayer was heard. See the parallel passages. Gen 11:7-9; 2Sam 15:31, 2Sam 17:1-14; John 7:45-53; Acts 23:6-10

I have Jer 6:7, Jer 23:14; Matt 23:37-38


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Day Ps 59:6, Ps 59:14-15; 1Sam 19:11; 2Sam 17:1-2; Hos 7:6; Mic 2:1-2; John 18:3, John 18:28; Acts 9:24

mischief 2Sam 16:21-22; Isa 59:6-15; Ezek 9:4; Zeph 3:1-3


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Wickedness Ezek 22:1-12; Acts 7:51-52

deceit Ps 109:2-3; Isa 59:7; Jer 5:26-27, Jer 9:3-5; Matt 26:4


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For Ps 41:9

magnify Ps 35:26, Ps 38:16; Isa 10:15

then I Matt 26:21-23; John 13:18, John 18:2-3


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a man mine equal Heb. a man according to my rank

my guide 2Sam 15:12, 2Sam 16:23; Jer 9:4; Mic 7:5

mine acquaintance John 19:13; Matt 26:47-50; Mark 14:44-45; Luke 22:21, Luke 22:47-48


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We took sweet counsel together Heb. Who sweetened counsel, walked. Ps 42:4, Ps 122:1; Isa 2:3; Ezek 33:31


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Let death etc. Or, rather, "Death shall seize on them; they shall descend quickly into the grave;" which is a prediction of the sudden destruction which befell the ringleaders of this unnatural rebellion. Ps 59:13, Ps 69:22-28, Ps 109:6-20; 2Sam 17:23, 2Sam 18:9, 2Sam 18:14; Matt 27:5; Acts 1:18-20

them Num 16:30-34; Matt 26:24; Acts 1:25

hell or, the grave, Ps 9:17


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Ps 50:15, Ps 73:28, Ps 91:15, Ps 109:4; Luke 6:11-12


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Evening Ps 5:2-3, Ps 119:62, Ps 119:147-148; Dan 6:10, Dan 6:13; Mark 1:35, Mark 6:46, Mark 6:48; Luke 18:1-7; Acts 3:1, Acts 10:3, Acts 10:9, Acts 10:30; Eph 6:18; 1Thess 5:17

cry Job 19:7; Lam 3:8; Heb 5:7


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He hath Ps 3:6-7, Ps 27:1-3, Ps 57:3, Ps 118:10-12; 2Sam 18:28, 2Sam 22:1; Acts 2:33-36

there 2Kgs 6:16; 2Chr 32:7-8; Matt 26:53; 1John 4:4


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hear Ps 65:5, Ps 143:12; 1Thess 2:15-16; Rev 6:10-11

even Ps 90:1-2; Deut 33:27; Mic 5:2; Col 1:17

Because etc. or, With whom also there be no changes, yet they fear not God

no changes Ps 73:5-6; Prov 1:32; Eccl 8:11; Isa 36:20; Jer 48:11; Zeph 1:12


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put 1Sam 22:17, 1Sam 24:10; 2Sam 18:12; Acts 12:1

at peace Ps 7:4, Ps 109:5, Ps 120:6-7

broken Heb. profaned, Ps 89:28, Ps 89:34, Ps 89:38; 2Sam 2:4, 2Sam 5:3, 2Sam 14:32-33, 2Sam 15:10-12; Eccl 8:2; Ezek 17:16-19


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The words Ps 28:3, Ps 57:4, Ps 62:4, Ps 64:3; Prov 5:3-4, Prov 12:18, Prov 26:24-26, Prov 26:28; Matt 26:25; Luke 20:20-21

war John 13:2


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Cast Ps 27:14, Ps 37:5 *marg. Ps 42:10-11, Ps 62:8, Ps 63:8; Isa 50:10; Matt 6:25, Matt 6:31-34, Matt 11:28; Luke 12:22; Phil 4:6-7; 1Pet 5:7

burden or, gift

suffer Ps 16:8, Ps 37:24, Ps 62:2, Ps 62:6, Ps 121:3; 1Sam 2:9; John 10:27-30; 1Pet 1:5


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O God Ps 7:15-16, Ps 58:9, Ps 59:12-13

pit Prov 15:11, Prov 27:20; Isa 38:17

bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Heb. men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days. Ps 5:6; 2Sam 3:27, 2Sam 20:9-10; 1Kgs 2:5-6; 2Sam 3:27, 2Sam 20:9-10; 1Kgs 2:5-6; Job 15:32; Prov 10:27; Eccl 7:17; Matt 27:4-5


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