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4Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-6)These verses look forward to the mercies that were yet wanted. Those that had come out of captivity were still in distress, even in their own land (Neh. 1:3), and many yet remained in Babylon; and therefore they rejoiced with trembling, and bore upon their hearts the grievances that were yet to be redressed. We have here, 1. A prayer for the perfecting of their deliverance (Ps. 126:4): “ Turn agai…
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