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15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them. I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in trouble, and beset with enemies; but many of the particulars here specified are such as were never true of David, and therefore must be appropriated to Christ in the depth of his humiliation. 1. He is here…
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