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7Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
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There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. …
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)Here, I. David desires to be told of his faults. His enemies reproached him with that which was false, which he could not but complain of; yet, at the same time, he desired his friends would reprove him for that which was really amiss in him, particularly if there was any thing that gave the least colour to those reproaches (Ps. 141:5): let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness . The righ…
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