Still prosecuting the same history, the Psalmist records in these verses the perpetual ingratitude of Israel, and the unceasing loving-kindness of the Lord. And although the Lord chastened them, and gave them into the hands of their enemies, yet here also, as before, there is a nevertheless, in the account. God's covenant-mercies, and Jesus's great salvation, stood and pleaded hard for poor, wretched, unworthy Israel. Reader! pray do not overlook the vast concern both you and I have in this history. Oh! how precious ought the same covenant love of God, and the infinitely meritorious blood of Christ, to be to us also! Oh! how loathsome in our own view is sin, when seen, as it is, exceedingly sinful. And oh! how must it appear in the eyes of infinite purity and holiness! And shall we not, under a deep sense of it, fall down to the dust of the earth, and like Ezra cry out, O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God! What but the covenant-engagements of God the Father, and the invaluable and never to be fully recompensed merits of God the Son, brought home and manifested to the heart by God the Holy Ghost, can give comfort under the alarms of a condemning conscience? Ezra 9:6.
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Psalms 106:40-46
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.