23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. …
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God’s name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer. 10:17 , 18 . The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress ; their country was their strong hold, and, in their own conceit, impregnable; but they are here told to think of leaving it: th…
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