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3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say{H8800)} unto me, Where is thy God?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily 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?
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase: now here we have some of the expressions of that love. Here is, I. Holy love thirsting, love upon the wing, soaring upwards in holy desires towards the Lord and towards the remembrance of his name ( P…
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