Psalms 57:3

For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.

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In The King James Version

He shall send from heaven, and save from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

In Context

2If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.

4Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

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Cross References

Job 31:31if the men around my tabernacle have not said: “He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled,”

Psalms 40:11But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.

Psalms 56:1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.

Psalms 138:8If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near.

Isaiah 26:12Lord, you will give us peace. For all our works have been wrought for us by you.

Matthew 28:2And behold, a great earthquake occurred. For an Angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and as he approached, he rolled back the stone and sat down on it.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 57:2-7

Prayer in Affliction. 1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. 2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. 3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose… Read the whole commentary →

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