The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
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Gill's Exposition
The God of my mercy shall prevent me,.... Or "of my grace", or "goodness", as the Targum; see Pe1 5:10. God is gracious in himself, and he has treasured up a fulness of grace in Christ: he is the…
Barnes' Notes
The God of my mercy shall prevent me - Or rather, “My God - his mercy shall prevent me.” This is in accordance with the present reading of the Hebrew text, and is probably correct. The psalmist looks…
David here encourages himself, in reference to the threatening power of his enemies, with a pious resolution to wait upon God and a believing expectation that he should yet praise him.
I. He resolves…
His enemies will be punished: yet let them not be utterly destroyed forthwith, but kept awhile for a warning, till they perish through their own iniquity, an evidence of the sovereignty of God.
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