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24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. …
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. …
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)The same that began the psalm complaining, who was no other than Christ in his humiliation, ends it here triumphing, and it can be no other than Christ in his exaltation. And, as the first words of the complaint were used by Christ himself upon the cross, so the first words of the triumph are expressly applied to him (Heb. 2:12) and are made his own words: I will declare thy name unto my brethren,…
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