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You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, But you brought us to the place of abundance.
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God's Hand in Hardship
Commentators explain that phrases like "men to ride over our heads" and going "through fire and through water" depict severe oppression and multifaceted trials. Crucially, the verse attributes the allowance of these trials to God ("Thou didst cause..."). This shows that even in the most extreme suffering, God remains sovereign, using affliction as a refining fire to prove His people, as Matthew Henry notes.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You have caused men to ride over our heads — This refers evidently to some national subjection or conquest—most probably to their h…
19th Century
Anglican
Ride over our heads. — For this figure of speech, compare Isaiah 51:23.
We went through fire and water. — …
Baptist
You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water:
It was the full ordeal. One was not enough. Fire…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it of the kings and nations of the world rul…
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…