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6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-8)The psalmist, having triumphed in the defeat of the many designs that had been laid as deep as hell to ruin the church, here concludes his psalm as Deborah did her song, So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord ! Jdg. 5:31. I. There are many that hate Zion, that hate Zion’s God, his worship, and his worshippers, that have an antipathy to religion and religious people, that seek the ruin of both, and…
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