O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
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Gill's Exposition
O keep my soul,.... Or "life" (n), which was in danger, his enemies seeking for it; wherefore he applies to God that gave it, and who had hitherto held him in it, to preserve it. God is the keeper of…
Barnes' Notes
O keep my soul - “My life;” or, keep “me.” The allusion is to all the perils which encompassed him, whether arising from his foes or his sins; and the prayer is, that the divine protection might be…
David, encouraged by the promises he had been meditating upon, here renews his addresses to God, and concludes the psalm, as he began, with professions of dependence upon God and desire towards…
Cambridge Bible
O keep&c. Preserve my soul. Cp. Psa 16:1; Psa 86:2.
for I put my trust in thee For I have taken refuge in thee. Cp. Psa 7:1; Psa 2:12, note.
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