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10When I wept{H8799)}, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
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Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. …
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. …
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)In these verses David complains of his troubles, intermixing with those complaints some requests for relief. I. His complaints are very sad, and he pours them out before the Lord, as one that hoped thus to ease himself of a burden that lay very heaven upon him. 1. He complains of the deep impressions that his troubles made upon his spirit ( Ps. 69:1 , 2 ): “The waters of affliction , those bitter…
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