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25For our soul is bowed down{H8804)} to the dust: our belly cleaveth{H8804)} unto the earth.
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DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-26)The people of God, being greatly afflicted and oppressed, here apply to him; whither else should they go? I. By way of appeal, concerning their integrity, which he only is an infallible judge of, and which he will certainly be the rewarder of. Two things they call God to witness to:— 1. That, though they suffered these hard things, yet they kept close to God and to their duty (Ps. 44:17): “ All th…
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