8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)When God sends destruction on the ungodly, he commands deliverance for the righteous; and, if he rain fire and brimstone on the wicked, he will cover the head of the just, and they shall be hid in the day of his anger. This we have an instance of in his preserving Lot. Here observe, 1. The character given of Lot; he is called a just man ; this he was as to the generally prevailing bent of his hear…
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