3Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
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And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. …
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. …
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is said in the close of the foregoing chapter that the Lord of hosts shall reign gloriously ; now, in compliance with this, the prophet here speaks of the glorious majesty of his kingdom (Ps. 145:12), and gives him the glory of it; and, however this prophecy might have an accomplishment in the destruction of Babylon and the deliverance of the Jews out of their captivity there, it seems to look…
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