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Into darkness. —The moral darkness of perplexity as well as misery. The cry of the mourner was like that of Ajax (Hom. Il.

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into ligh…

The letters of the alphabet are tripled in this chapter, a point I previously omitted to mention. In the first two chapters, each verse begins with…

He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness Which often signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or a…

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…

Here, after listing many punishments, the author guards against the people's despair.
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Charles Ellicott
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