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12Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
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Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. …
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. …
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)We are to take notice of the goodness of God towards prisoners and captives. Observe, 1. A description of this affliction. Prisoners are said to sit in darkness (Ps. 107:10), in dark dungeons, close prisons, which intimates that they are desolate and disconsolate; they sit in the shadow of death , which intimates not only great distress and trouble, but great danger. Prisoners are many times appoi…
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