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4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a prayer of the afflicted . It was composed by one that was himself afflicted, afflicted with the church and for it; and on those that are of a public spirit afflictions of that kind lie heavier than any other. It is calculated for an afflicted state, and is intended for the use of others that may be in the like distress; for whatsoever things were…
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