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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird,.... That is weak and helpless, fearful and timorous; that flees from place to place when pursued; so it was with the prophet, or rather with the people of the…
It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Fear and the pit See on Jer 48:43, of which this reminds us, and cp. Isa 24:17 f.
devastation mg. tumult. The original word occurs here only.
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