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Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
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A Model for Desperate Prayer
Commentators view this verse as a model of heartfelt, desperate prayer. It's an emotional appeal to God as a compassionate Father, asking how He could see His people's suffering and remain silent. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Ellicott highlight its tenderness and earnestness, encouraging believers to approach God with similar honesty and vulnerability in times of trial.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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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19th Century
Anglican
Wilt thou refrain ...? — The final appeal to the fatherly compassion of Jehovah reminds us of the scene when Joseph could…
Baptist
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: …
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16th Century
Protestant
Will you restrain yourself for these things, O Jehovah? The people strengthen themselves by assured confidence that God will not permit hi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
O that you would rend. Here the prophet offers a petition.
First, he asks for the presence of the judge; second, he asks …
