22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
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He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)God has spoken once to sinners by their own consciences, to keep them from the paths of the destroyer, but they perceive it not; they are not aware that the checks their own hearts give them in a sinful way are from God, but they are imputed to melancholy or the preciseness of their education; and therefore God speaks twice; he speaks a second time, and tries another way to convince and reclaim si…
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