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3For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. …
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; …
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)It should seem, by the titles of this and the following psalm, that Heman was the penman of the one and Ethan of the other. There were two, of these names, who were sons of Zerah the son of Judah, 1 Chron. 2:4 , 6 . There were two others famed for wisdom, 1 Kgs. 4:31; where, to magnify Solomon’s wisdom, he is said to be wiser than Heman and Ethan . Whether the Heman and Ethan who were Levites and…
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