13When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-16)Here, I. God shows how insufficient idols and creatures were to relieve and succour those that worshipped them and confided in them (Isa. 57:13): “ When thou criest in thy distress and anguish, lamentest thy misery and callest for help, let thy companies deliver thee , thy idol-gods which thou hast heaped to thyself companies of, the troops of the confederate forces which thou hast relied so much…
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