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**LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**do I put my trust** = have I fled for refuge. Hebrew. *hasah* . App-69 .
**confusion** = shame.

**ear.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .

**strong habitation** = rock of habitation. Hebrew. *zur* , a fortified place. Some codices, with six early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "a rock of refuge".
**whereunto I may continually resort, &c.** Septuagint reads "a place of security to save me".
**rock.** Hebrew. *sela* '. See note on [Psalms 18:1](../../../kjv/psalms/18/1) , [Psalms 18:2](../../../kjv/psalms/18/2) .[Exodus 17:6](../../../kjv/exodus/17/6) . [Deuteronomy 32:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/13) .

**Deliver** = Cause me to escape.
**the wicked** = lawless one. Hebrew. *rash* a'. App-44 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**hope.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for the object of hope.
**Lord GOD.** Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. App-4 .
**trust** = confidence. Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 .

**from the womb.** Compare [Jeremiah 1:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/5) . Some have supposed that this Psalm was written by Jeremiah. See note on [Psalms 71:22](../../../kjv/psalms/71/22) . But even then it points to Christ.

**I am** = I have become.
**art.** Supply the *Ellipsis* , "hast been".

**my soul** = me (emphatic). Hebrew. *nephesh.*

**the numbers.** Compare [Psalms 40:5](../../../kjv/psalms/40/5) .

**strength** = strengths. Plural of majesty = great strength.

**Now also** = Yea also.
**when I am old and grayheaded** = to old age and gray hairs.
**Thy strength** = Thine arm; "arm" being put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for the wonders wrought by it.
**every one that is to come.** A special reading called. Sevir ( App-34 ) reads "all who are to come".

**who is like unto Thee.** This is the cry of all God's saints. See note on [Exodus 15:11](../../../kjv/exodus/15/11) .

**quicken me again** = make me alive again.
**bring me up again:** i.e. in resurrection.

**with** = with the aid of.
**sing** = sing praise.
**Holy One of Israel.** Occurs only three times in the Psalms (here, [Psalms 78:41](../../../kjv/psalms/78/41) ; [Psalms 89:18](../../../kjv/psalms/89/18) ). In Isaiah we find it thirty times. In Jeremiah twice ( Psa 50:29 ; [Psalms 51:5](../../../kjv/psalms/51/5) ). See note on [Psalms 78:41](../../../kjv/psalms/78/41) .

**redeemed.** Hebrew. *padah.* See note on [Exodus 13:13](../../../kjv/exodus/13/13) with [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) .

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