10Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. …
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. …
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)We may here observe, I. How the people were wounded with the words of the law that were read to them. The law works death, and speaks terror, shows men their sins, and their misery and danger because of sin, and thunders a curse against every one that continues not in every part of his duty. Therefore when they heard it they all wept (Neh. 8:9): it was a good sign that their hearts were tender, li…
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