7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
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His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-8)The time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, having come, the people of God must be prepared, by repentance and faith, for the favours designed them; and, in order to call them to both these, we have here the voice of one crying in the wilderness , which may be applied to those prophets who were with the captives in their wilderness-state, and who, when they saw the day of their deliverance dawn, c…
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