2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: …
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? …
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)God is not wont to say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain ; and yet here we have the spouse for a great while seeking her beloved in vain, but finding him at last, to her unspeakable satisfaction. It was hard to the Old-Testament church to find Christ in the ceremonial law, and the types and figures which then were of good things to come . Long was the consolation of Israel looked for befor…
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