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6Pour out{H8798)} thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known{H8804)} thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called{H8804)} upon thy name.
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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
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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