10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. …
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? …
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Here are precious promises for those to feast freely and cheerfully upon by faith who keep the fast that God has chosen; let them know that God will make it up to them. Here is, I. A further account of the duty to be done in order to our interest in these promises ( Isa. 58:9 , 10 ); and here, as before, it is required that we both do justly and love mercy, that we cease to do evil and learn to do…
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