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You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
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God's Hand in Hardship
Commentators, particularly Charles Spurgeon, highlight that the psalmist attributes the trial directly to God ('Thou broughtest us...'). Instead of focusing on the human enemies or circumstances that create the 'net,' believers are encouraged to look to God as the ultimate cause. This perspective shifts the focus from blame towards understanding God's sovereign purpose, even in suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thou broughtest us into the net—that is, You have allowed or permitted us to be brought into the net; You have allowed us to be tak…
19th Century
Anglican
Net. —The Hebrew in Ezekiel 12:13 certainly means “net,” as in the Septuagint and Vulgate here. But Aquila, Symmachus, and Jerome …
Baptist
You have tried us, as silver is tried. You brought us into the net.
Entangled, surrounded, captive, held fast. Many of God's people …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thou broughtest us into the net That is, suffered them to be taken in the net of wicked men, which they laid and spr…
The Lord not only preserves our temporal life, but maintains the spiritual life which he has given to believers. By afflictions we are proved, as s…
