16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. …
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
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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