Having dwelt upon the difficulties which obstructed his path, he now shows that there are dangers that accompany escape.

The meaning of Lame…

Bitterness. —The Hebrew gives the plural, bitternesses. With these, the sorrows which are like the bitter herbs of life (…

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with …

Some render the last word “wormwood,” but this word does not seem to me to suit the passage, because although wormwood is bitter, it is also a whol…

He has filled me with bitterness Or "with bitternesses" ^F13; instead of food, bitter herbs; the allusion perha…

The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…

Second, he describes the affliction of the punishment. The phrase into my reins signifies the wantonness of the people. The term