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3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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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.
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The church of God, in its several ages, is here spoken of, or, rather, here speaks, as one single person, now old and gray-headed, but calling to remembrance the former days, and reflecting upon the times of old. And, upon the review, it is found, 1. That the church has been often greatly distressed by its enemies on earth: Israel may now say , “I am the people that has been oppressed more than an…
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