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18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …
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.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Bodily sickness is another of the calamities of this life which gives us an opportunity of experiencing the goodness of God in recovering us, and of that the psalmist speaks in these verses, where we may observe, I. That we, by our sins, bring sickness upon ourselves and then it is our duty to pray, Ps. 107:17-18. 1. It is the sin of the soul that is the cause of sickness; we bring it upon ourselv…
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