The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord upholdeth all that fall,.... Not all that fell in Adam, as all mankind did; nor all that fall into sin, as every man does; and therefore not those that fall into hell: but this is to be…
Barnes' Notes
The Lord upholdeth all that fall - The word used here is a participle, literally, “The Lord sustaining;” that is, the Lord is a Sustainer or Upholder of all that fall. The allusion is to those who…
The greatness and goodness of him who is optimus et maximus - the best and greatest of beings, were celebrated in the former part of the psalm; here, in these verses, we are taught to give him the…
Cambridge Bible
all that fall Or, all that are falling. But cp. Psa 37:17; Psa 37:24.
raiseth up An Aramaic word, found in the Heb. of the O.T. only here and in Psa 146:8.
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