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24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
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O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. …
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-28)We may here observe, I. The imminent danger that the Jewish church was in of being quite extirpated and cut off by the captivity in Babylon (Ps. 102:23): He weakened my strength in the way . They were for many ages in the way to the performance of the great promise made to their fathers concerning the Messiah, longing as much for it as ever a traveller did to be at his journey’s end. The legal ins…
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