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10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies{H8802)} reproach{H8765)} me; while they say{H8800)} daily unto me, Where is thy God?
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My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Complaints and comforts here, as before, take their turn, like day and night in the course of nature. I. He complains of the dejections of his spirit, but comforts himself with the thoughts of God, Ps. 42:6. 1. In his troubles. His soul was dejected, and he goes to God and tells him so: O my God! my soul is cast down within me . It is a great support to us, when upon any account we are distressed,…
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