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10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? …
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. …
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)The latter part of this psalm, which begins in the middle of a verse, is an exhortation to those who sing gospel psalms to live gospel lives, and to hear the voice of God’s word; otherwise, how can they expect that he should hear the voice of their prayers and praises? Observe, I. The duty required of all those that are the people of Christ’s pasture and the sheep of his hand . He expects that the…
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