63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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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