John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 55:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They came round about me daily like water, etc.] That is, the terrors of the Lord, the sorrows of death and hell, (<191804>Psalm 18:4,5), this was the Messiah’s case, when it was with him as is expressed (<196901>Psalm 69:1,2), they compassed me about together; as waters coming from many places, from all quarters, meet together, and together surround a person or place in such circumstances was Christ, when the bulls of Bashan beset him around, and the assembly of the wicked enclosed him, and innumerable evils encompassed him about, (<192212>Psalm 22:12,16 40:12).

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