Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced,.... With them, the mockers; or, "those that make merry" (r); as the word is rendered in Jer 30:19, and so the Targum,
"those that sing;''…
This is the prayer of a man in bitter grief, whose human nature cannot at present submit to the divine will. God’s long-suffering toward the wicked seemed to the prophet to be the abandonment of…
Here, as before, we have,
I. The prophet's humble address to God, containing a representation both of his integrity and of the hardships he underwent notwithstanding. It is a matter of comfort to us…
Cambridge Bible
He describes the joy with which he first received the Divine commission.
were found Cp. Eze 3:1, where "findest" (omitted, however, in the best MSS. of LXX) stands in the same connexion.
I did eat…
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