3Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)How Baruch was employed in writing Jeremiah’s prophecies, and reading them, we had an account Jer. 36:1-32, and how he was threatened for it by the king, warrants being out for him and he forced to abscond, and how narrowly he escaped under a divine protection, to which story this chapter should have been subjoined, but that, having reference to a private person, it is here thrown into the latter…
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