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11My lovers and my friends stand{H8799)} aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand{H8804)} afar off.
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I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. …
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. …
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a psalm to bring to remembrance ; the 70 th psalm, which was likewise penned in a day of affliction, is so entitled. It is designed, 1. To bring to his own remembrance. We will suppose it penned when he was sick and in pain, and then it teaches us that times of sickness are times to bring to remembrance, to bring the sin to remembrance, for which G…
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