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7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled under humbling providences, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent on purpose to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Those heap up wrath who cry not when God binds them; but those are getting ready for mercy who, under God’s rebukes, sow in tears, as David does here. Let us observe here, I. The representation he…
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