4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. …
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. …
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We had one burden of Babylon before (Isa. 13:1-22); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon sometimes pretended to be a friend to them (as Isa. 39:1), and God would hereby warn them not to trust to that friendship, and sometimes was really an enemy to them, and God would hereby warn them no…
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