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50Remember{H8798)}, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear{H8800)} in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. …
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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