25The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
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The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. …
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)Note, 1. Those that are elevated God delights to abase, and commonly does it in the course of his providence: The proud , that magnify themselves, bid defiance to the God above them and trample on all about them, are such as God resists and will destroy , not them only, but their houses , which they are proud of and are confident of the continuance and perpetuity of. Pride is the ruin of multitude…
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