1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord ; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1)…
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