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9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. …
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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