3He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)It is a very sad representation which is here made of the state of God’s church, of Jacob and Israel, of Zion and Jerusalem; but the emphasis in these verses seems to be laid all along upon the hand of God in the calamities which they were groaning under. The grief is not so much that such and such things are done as that God has done them, that he appears angry with them; it is he that chastens t…
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