7O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. …
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin—persecuting God’s prophets and oppressing God’s poor. I. Persecuting God’s prophets, suppressing and silencing them, is a sin that provokes God as much as anything, for it not only spits in the face of his authority over us, but spurns at the bowels of his me…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.