8But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. …
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; …
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Here, I. The prophet experiences a divine power going along with him in his work, and he makes a solemn profession and protestation of it, as that which would justify him, and bear him out, in his plain dealing with the princes and rulers. He would not, he durst not, make thus bold with the great men, but that he was carried out to do it by a prophetical impulse and impression. It was not he that…
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