19We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
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Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-19)The foregoing praises were intended as an introduction to this prayer, which is continued to the end of the next chapter, and it is an affectionate, importunate, pleading prayer. It is calculated for the time of the captivity. As they had promises, so they had prayers, prepared for them against that time of need, that they might take with them words in turning to the Lord, and say unto him what he…
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