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4They have said{H8804)}, Come{H8798)}, and let us cut them off{H8686)} from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance{H8735)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. …
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The Israel of God were now in danger, and fear, and great distress, and yet their prayer is called, A song or psalm ; for singing psalms is not unseasonable, no, not when the harps are hung upon the willow-trees. I. The psalmist here begs of God to appear on the behalf of his injured threatened people (Ps. 83:1): “ Keep not thou silence, O God ! but give judgment for us against those that do us an…
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