22Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. …
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. …
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)Justly are these called Lamentations , and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel’s roll, Ezek. 2:10. I. Copies of lamentations are here presented and they are painted to the life. 1. The judges and magistrates, who used to appear in robes of state, have laid them aside, or rather are stripped of them, a…
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