5I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
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For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-8)We may observe here, 1. The plentiful provision God had made for Israel and the seasonable supplies he had blessed them with (Hos. 14:5): “ I did know thee in the wilderness , took cognizance of thy case and made provision for thee, even in a land of great drought , when thou wast in extreme distress, and when no relief was to be had in an ordinary way.” See a description of this wilderness, Deut.…
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