20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! …
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? …
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God’s house lay nearer their hearts than those of their own ( Lam. 5:17 , 18 ): For this our heart is faint , and sinks under the load of its own heaviness; for these things our eyes are dim , and our sight is gone, as is usual in a deliquium, or f…
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