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- Chapter 55
- Verse 18
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
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Gill's Exposition
God shall hear and afflict them,.... That is, either he shall hear the prayers of his servant, imprecating evils upon his enemies, Psa 55:9; and shall bring them down upon them, in answer to his…
Barnes' Notes
He hath delivered my soul in peaee - The Hebrew is, “He has redeemed;” so also the Septuagint and Vulgate. The meaning is, He has “rescued” me, or has saved me from my enemies. Either the psalmist…
In these verses,
I. David perseveres in his resolution to call upon God, being well assured that he should not seek him in vain (Psa 55:16): "As for me, let them take what course they please to secure…
In this division of the Psalm the storm of indignation dies away, and the Psalmist's trustful confidence revives.
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