52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. …
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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