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11Why withdrawest{H8686)} thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck{H8761)} it out of thy bosom.
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He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. …
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)This psalm is entitled Maschil—a psalm to give instruction , for it was penned in a day of affliction, which is intended for instruction; and this instruction in general it gives us, That when we are, upon any account, in distress, it is our wisdom and duty to apply to God by faithful and fervent prayer, and we shall not find it in vain to do so. Three things the people of God here complain of:— I…
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