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17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
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But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. …
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)In these verses, I. David complains of the power and malice of his enemies, who, it should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and the trouble of his mind to insult over him, but took advantage thence to do him a mischief. He has a great deal to say against them, which he humbly offers as a reason why God should appear for him, as Ps. 25:19; Consider my enemies . 1. “They ar…
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