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4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here a sad complaint exhibited in the court of heaven. The world is full of complaints, and so is the church too, for it suffers, not only with it, but from it, as a lily among thorns . God is complained to; whither should children go with their grievances, but to their father, to such a father as is able and willing to help? The heathen are complained of, who, being themselves aliens from…
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