1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. …
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; …
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Isa. any afflicted? let him pray ; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: “ Remember what has come upon us , Lam. 5:1. What was of…
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