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For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
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A Portrait of Christ's Suffering
Several commentators see this verse as a prophetic description of Jesus. The 'innumerable evils' and 'iniquities' are not His own, but the sins of the world placed upon Him. This crushing weight, more numerous than the hairs on His head, caused Him immense suffering as our substitute, to the point that His human heart failed and He felt separated from the Father.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For innumerable evils have compassed me about - Have surrounded me, or have beset me on every side. The evils here referred to, und…
19th Century
Baptist
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than th…
16th Century
Protestant
For innumerable evils have compassed me on all sides. This phrase, in the original, denotes more than can be expressed in an English trans…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For innumerable evils have compassed me about Like floods of water all around him; see (Psalms 18:4[Refe…
The best saints see themselves undone unless continually preserved by the grace of God. But see the frightful view the psalmist had of sin. This ma…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding psalms, the psalmist asked for divine help against the malice of the wicked and showed his intention to be cautious. Her…
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