28And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
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O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: …
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)Though the last stage of Samson’s life was inglorious, and one could wish there were a veil drawn over it, yet this account here given of his death may be allowed to lessen, though it does not quite roll away, the reproach of it; for there was honour in his death. No doubt he greatly repented of his sin, the dishonour he had by it done to God and his forfeiture of the honour God had put upon him;…
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