45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. …
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-54)It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh; for great pains must be taken with a troubled spirit to bring it into temper. I. They confess the righ…
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