14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. …
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? …
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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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