20Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
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God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-24)Here is a preface that commands attention; and it is fit that all should attend, both near and afar off, to what God says and does (Isa. 33:13): Hear, you that are afar off , whether in place or time. Let distant regions and future ages hear what God has done. They do so; they will do so from the scripture, with as much assurance as those that were near, the neighbouring nations and those that liv…
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