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9Mine eye mourneth{H8804)} by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called{H8804)} daily upon thee, I have stretched out{H8765)} my hands unto thee.
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If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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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