22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. …
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? …
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)We have attended the fate of those that are cut off, and are now to attend the flight of those that have an opportunity of escaping the danger; some of them shall escape (Ezek. 7:16), but what the better? As good die once as, in a miserable life, die a thousand deaths, and escape only like Cain to be fugitives and vagabonds , and afraid of being slain by every one they meet; so shall these be. I.…
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