21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. …
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-26)The closing words of the foregoing paragraph ( You shall be left as a beacon upon a mountain ) some understand as a promise that a remnant of them should be reserved as monuments of mercy; and here the prophet tells them what good times should succeed these calamities. Or the first words in this paragraph may be read by way of antithesis, Notwithstanding this, yet will the Lord wait that he may be…
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