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158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
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Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 158)Here is, 1. David’s sorrow for the wickedness of the wicked. Though he conversed much at home, yet sometimes he looked abroad, and could not but see the wicked walking on every side. He beheld the transgressors , those whose sins were open before all men, and it grieved him to see them dishonour God, serve Satan, debauch the world, and ruin their own souls, to see the transgressors so numerous, so…
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