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6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
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He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Some think they find Christ in the title of this psalm, upon Aijeleth Shahar—The hind of the morning . Christ is as the swift hind upon the mountains of spices (Song 8:14), as the loving hind and the pleasant roe, to all believers (Prov. 5:19); he giveth goodly words like Naphtali, who is compared to a hind let loose, Gen. 49:21. He is the hind of the morning, marked out by the counsels of God fro…
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