Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. When I shall receive the congregation ] When the proper time is come that the congregation, my people of Israel, should be brought out of captivity, and received back into favour, I shall not only enlarge them, but punish their enemies. They shall be cut off and cast out, and become a more miserable people than those whom they now insult. I will destroy them as a nation, so that they shall never more be numbered among the empires of the earth.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only onc or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? God shows that he is nigh to us in what we call upon him for. Public trusts are to be manage uprightly. This may well be applied to Christ and his government. Man' sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. He who is made of God to us wisdom, bids us be wise. To the proud, daring sinners he says, Boast not of your power persist not in contempt. All the present hopes and future happiness of the human race spring from the Son of God.
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