“ Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. ”
Shout - i. e. call for help. Shutteth out - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no egress.
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (c) prayer. (c) This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not hear...
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The Prophet describes here the extremity of all evils, that it availed him nothing to cry and to pray. And yet we know that we are called to do this in all our miseries. “ The strongest tower...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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He shutteth out my prayer — i.e., stops it so that it does not reach the ear of Jehovah; and it is Jehovah himself who does this.
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Also when I cry and shout ,.... Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. Ver. 8. Also when I cry and shout. ] As poor prisoners use to do for relief and release. He shutteth out my prayer. ] Or, Shutteth his ear...
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I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read...
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistich...
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A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Habakkuk 1:2 ; Job 19:7 ; Job 30:20 ; Lamentations 3:44 ; Matthew 27:46 ; Psalms 22:2 ; Psalms 80:4