12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? …
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. …
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)As we have the Lamentations of Jeremiah, so here we have the Lamentations of Isaiah; the subject of both is the same—the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the sin of Israel that brought that destruction—only with this difference, Isaiah sees it at a distance and laments it by the Spirit of prophecy, Jeremiah saw it accomplished. In these verses, I. The people of God in their affliction…
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