30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-36)Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break. To save the heart from being quite broken, here is something called to mind , which gives ground for hope (Lam. 3:21), which refers to what come…
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