31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
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And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, …
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-31)Deborah here concludes this triumphant song, I. With the praises of Jael, her sister-heroine, whose valiant act had completed and crowned the victory. She had mentioned her before (Jdg. 5:6) as one that would have served her country if it had been in her power; now she applauds her as one that did serve it admirably well when it was in her power. Her poetry is finest and most florid here in the la…
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