10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
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Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Elkanah had gently reproved Hannah for her inordinate grief, and here we find the good effect of the reproof. I. It brought her to her meat. She ate and drank, 1 Sam. 1:9. She did not harden herself in sorrow, nor grow sullen when she was reproved for it; but, when she perceived her husband uneasy that she did not come and eat with them, she cheered up her own spirits as well as she could, and cam…
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