8O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?(I speak as a man) …
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)We have here an account of the deep concern Joshua was in upon this sad occasion. He, as a public person, interested himself more than any other in this public loss, and is therein an example to princes and great men, and teaches them to lay much to heart the calamities that befal their people: he is also a type of Christ, to whom the blood of his subjects is precious, Ps. 72:14. Observe, I. How h…
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