8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord ; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1)…
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