22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: …
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. …
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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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