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4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
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The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We have here, I. The solemn profession which God’s people make of faith and hope in God, Ps. 123:1 , 2 . Observe, 1. The title here given to God: O thou that dwellest in the heavens . Our Lord Jesus has taught us, in prayer, to have an eye to God as our Father in heaven ; not that he is confined there, but there especially he manifests his glory, as the King in his court. Heaven is a place of pros…
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