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2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore{H8799)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. …
Commentary
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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