13Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
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But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)Here is, I. Joy proclaimed to the church of God, to the daughter of Zion , that had separated herself from the daughter of Babylon . The Jews that had returned were in distress and danger, their enemies in the neighbourhood were spiteful against them, their friends that remained in Babylon were cool towards them, shy of them, and declined coming in to their assistance; and yet they are directed to…
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