13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)The complaints here are, for substance, the same with those in the foregoing part of the chapter; but in these verses the prophet, in the name of the lamenting church, does more particularly acknowledge the hand of god in these calamities, and the righteousness of his hand.[ 47a5 /P] I. The church in distress here magnifies her affliction, and yet no more than there was cause for; her groaning was…
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