For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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Gill's Exposition
For I will not contend for ever,.... By afflictive providences; with the humble and contrite, the end being in a great measure answered by their humiliation and contrition; when God afflicts his…
Barnes' Notes
For I will not contend for ever - I will not be angry with my people forever, nor always refuse to pardon and comfort them (see Psa 103:9). This is to be regarded as having been primarily addressed to…
Adam Clarke
For I will not contend for ever - The learned have taken a great deal of pains to little purpose on the latter part of this verses which they suppose to be very obscure. After all their labors upon…
Here, I. God shows how insufficient idols and creatures were to relieve and succour those that worshipped them and confided in them (Isa 57:13): "When thou criest in thy distress and anguish,…
Cambridge Bible
Hardly less remarkable is the motive here assigned for the Divine clemency, Jehovah's compassion for the frailty of His creatures (Psa 103:9; Psa 103:13 f., Psa 78:39). The argument somewhat resembles…
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