5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The prophet had before, in this sermon, spoken of a child that should be born, a son that should be given, on whose shoulders the government should be, intending this for the comfort of the people of God in times of trouble, as dying Jacob, many ages before, had intended the prospect of Shiloh for the comfort of his seed in their affliction in Egypt. He had said (Isa. 10:27) that the yoke should b…
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