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31981 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 515.12 (Matthew Henry)
… character, Psalms 36:7. They are such as are allured by the excellency of God’s loving-kindness to put their trust under the shadow of his wings. [1.] God’s loving …
31982 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.1 (Matthew Henry)
… scandalous character of the wicked ( Psalms 37:12, 37:14, 37:21, 37:32 ) notwithstanding their prosperity, and the honourable character of the righteous, Psalms …
31983 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of God ( Psalms 37:31 ): The law of God, of his God, is in his heart; and in vain do we pretend that God is our God if we do not receive his law into our hearts and resign ourselves …
31984 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 517.13 (Matthew Henry)
… men’s characters by their outward condition; none knows love or hatred by all that is before him. It should seem that David in this, as in other complaints he …
31985 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 519.23 (Matthew Henry)
… seek God, and love his salvation, to rejoice in him and to praise him, Psalms 40:16. See here, 1. The character of good people. Conformably to the laws of natural religion …
31986 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 522.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , his character was no better. As long as there are such bad men out of hell, and nations of them, it is not strange that good men, who are yet out of heaven, meet with …
31987 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 529.5 (Matthew Henry)
… a character of the saints that they have made a covenant with God by sacrifice. Note, (1.) Those only shall be gathered to God as his saints who have, in sincerity …
31988 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 530.1 (Matthew Henry)
… his character: all the rest of his faults were nothing to this; it is said of him ( 1 Kings 15:5 ), That “he turned not aside from the commandment of the Lord all the days …
31989 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 530.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, she was, by nature, a daughter of Eve, and not excepted from the common character. Note, It is to be sadly lamented by every one of us that we brought into the …
31990 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 533.2 (Matthew Henry)
… that God is faithful, for men are not to be trusted, Micah 7:5. 2. His prayer to God for succour and deliverance, Psalms 54:1, 54:2. He appeals to God’s strength, by which …
31991 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 534.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character he gives of the enemies he feared. They were of the worst sort of men, and his description of them agrees very well with Absalom and his accomplices …
31992 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 534.14 (Matthew Henry)
… their character as the reason why he expected God would bring them down. [1.] They are impious and profane, and stand in no awe of God, of his authority or wrath ( Psalms …
31993 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 538.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to God the glory of, Psalms 59:8-59:17. As far as it appears that any of the particular enemies of God’s people fall under these characters, we may, in singing this …
31994 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 538.5 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character of his enemies. They are workers of iniquity, and therefore not only his enemies, but God’s enemies; they are bloody men, and therefore not only …
31995 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 541.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . If God be for us, we need not fear what man can do against us, though ever so mighty and malicious. He here, (1.) Gives a character of his enemies: They imagine mischief …
31996 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 542.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of God. God was in all his thoughts, which is the reverse of the wicked man’s character, Psalms 10:4. The thoughts of God were ready to him: “ I remember thee; that is …
31997 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 543.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to God to preserve him from their malicious designs against him, Psalms 64:1, 64:2. II. He gives a very bad character of them, as men marked for ruin by their own wickedness …
31998 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 543.2 (Matthew Henry)
David, in these verses, puts in before God a representation of his own danger and of his enemies’ character, to enforce his petition that God would protect him and punish them.
31999 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Lord God of hosts! and that seek thee, O God of Israel ! (under these two characters we ought to seek God, and in seeking him to wait on him, as the God of hosts, who has …
32000 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.14 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character; but when we consider what an honour it is to be dishonoured for God, and what a favour to be counted worthy to suffer shame for his name (as they …