13Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
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For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. …
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)Pashur’s doom was to be a terror to himself ; Jeremiah, even now, in this hour of temptation, is far from being so; and yet it cannot be denied but that he is here, through the infirmity of the flesh, strangely agitated within himself. Good men are but men at the best. God is not extreme to mark what they say and do amiss, and therefore we must not be so, but make the best of it. In these verses i…
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