Will you restrain yourself? - Will you refuse to come to our aid? Will you decline to visit us, and save us from our calamities?

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Wilt thou refrain ...? — The final appeal to the fatherly compassion of Jehovah reminds us of the scene when Joseph could…

We are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: …

Will you restrain yourself for these things, O Jehovah? The people strengthen themselves by assured confidence that God will not permit hi…

Will you refrain yourself for these things, O Lord ? &c.] From delivering us out of our troubles and miseries, and taking…

The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, acknowledging themselves unworthy of His mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which…

1. O that you would rend. Here the prophet offers a petition.

   First, he asks for the presence of the judge; second, he asks …