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7In his days shall the righteous flourish{H8799)}; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-17)This is a prophecy of the prosperity and perpetuity of the kingdom of Christ under the shadow of the reign of Solomon. It comes in, 1. As a plea to enforce the prayer: “Lord, give him thy judgments and thy righteousness , and then he shall judge thy people with righteousness , and so shall answer the end of his elevation, Ps. 72:2. Give him thy grace, and then thy people, committed to his charge,…
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