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- Chapter 71
- Verse 4
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
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Gill's Exposition
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,.... Meaning Absalom his son, as Arama, who had risen up in rebellion against him; and he may not only intend him, but all those wicked men that had…
Barnes' Notes
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked - It is, of course, not possible now to ascertain who are particularly referred to here. If David was the author of the psalm, they may have been…
Two things in general David here prays for - that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded.
I. He prays that he might never be made ashamed of his dependence…
The ground of the Psalmist's appeal for deliverance.
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