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38But he, being full of compassion, forgave{H8762)} their iniquity, and destroyed{H8686)} them not: yea, many a time{H8689)} turned he his anger away{H8687)}, and did not stir up{H8686)} all his wrath.
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For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. …
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, …
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-39)In these verses, I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Ps. 78:9-11. The children of Ephraim , in which tribe Shiloh was, though they were well armed and shot with bows, yet turned back in the day of battle . This seems to refer to that shameful defeat which th…
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