61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 55-65)We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet’s breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Ps. 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comf…
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