5Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. …
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. God’s people are stirred up to appear vigorous for their own deliverance, Isa. 52:1 , 2 . They had desired that God would awake and put on his strength , Isa. 51:9. Here he calls upon them to awake and put on their strength , to bestir themselves; let them awake from their despondency, and pluck up their spirits, encourage themselves and one another with the hope that all will be well yet…
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