18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. …
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them , not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is…
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