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39Thou hast made void{H8765)} the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned{H8765)} his crown by casting it to the ground.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. …
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-52)In these verses we have, I. A very melancholy complaint of the present deplorable state of David’s family, which the psalmist thinks hard to be reconciled to the covenant God made with David. “Thou saidst thou wouldst not take away thy lovingkindness, but thou hast cast off .” Sometimes, it is no easy thing to reconcile God’s providences with his promises, and yet we are sure they are reconcilable…
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