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10Wherefore should the heathen say{H8799)}, Where is their God? let him be known{H8735)} among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed{H8803)}.
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As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)The petitions here put up to God are very suitable to the present distresses of the church, and they have pleas to enforce them, interwoven with them, taken mostly from God’s honour. I. They pray that God would so turn away his anger from them as to turn it upon those that persecuted and abused them (Ps. 79:6): “ Pour out thy wrath , the full vials of it, upon the heathen ; let them wring out the…
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