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7For my loins are filled with a loathsome{H8737)} disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. …
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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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