Attend unto my cry,.... His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he desires might be hearkened unto and answered;for I am brought very low; in his spirit, in the exercise of grace, being in great affliction, and reduced to the utmost extremity, weakened, impoverished, and exhausted; wanting both men and money to assist him, Ps 79:8;deliver me from my persecutors; Saul and his men, who were in pursuit of him with great warmth and eagerness;for they are stronger than I; more in number, and greater in strength; Saul had with him three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, ablebodied men, and expert in war; veteran troops, and in high spirits, with their king at the head of them; David had about six hundred men, and these poor mean creatures, such as were in distress, in debt, and discontented, and in want of provisions, and dispirited; see 1Sa 22:2.
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Psalms 142:6
Psalms 142:6
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when he was forced by Saul to take shelter in a cave, and which he
afterwards penned in this form. Here is, I. The complaint he makes to…Psalms 142 — OverviewPsalms 142 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 142:1, David shews that in his trouble all his comfort was in prayer unto God. Psalm of David giving instruction. Psalms 32:1, Psalms 54:1, Psalms 57:1 *titles 1 Chronicles 4:10Psalms 142 — OverviewPsalms 142 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleMaschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. Of the word "maschil", See Gill on "Ps 32:1", title. This psalm is called a prayer, as some others are, the ninetieth and hundred second psalms: and was composed by…Psalms 142:4-7Psalms 142:4-7 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe psalmist here tells us, for our instruction, 1. How he was disowned
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