19O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-20)We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation before God. The judgment was very heavy, and here they are directed to own the hand of God in it, his mighty hand , and to humble themselves under it. Here is, I. A proclamation issued out for a genera…
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