14Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-16)Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews that believed and of those that still persisted in unbelief, are set the one over—against the other, as life and death, good and evil, the blessing and the curse. I. Here is the fearful doom of those that persisted in their idolatry after the deliverance out of Babylon, and in infidelity after the preaching of the gospel of Christ. Obs…
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