Bible Commentaries

Job 9:12 — Verse Job 9:12. He taketh away — He never gives, but he is ever lending: and while the gift is useful or is improved, he permits it to remain; but when it becomes useless or is misused, he recalls it.Who can hinder him? — Literally, Who can cause him

Psalms 116:9 — Verse Psalms 116:9. I will walk before the Lord — אתהלך ethhallech, I will set myself to walk. I am determined to walk; my eyes are now brightened, so that I can see; my feet are strengthened, so that I can walk; and my soul is alive, so that I can walk with the

Psalms 146:9 — Verse Psalms 146:9. Preserveth the strangers — He has preserved you strangers in a strange land, where you have been in captivity for seventy years; and though in an enemy's country, he has provided for the widows and orphans as amply as if he had been in the promised

Psalms 77:9 — Verse Psalms 77:9. Hath God - in anger shut up his tender mercies? — The tender mercies of God are the source whence all his kindness to the children of men flows. The metaphor here is taken from a spring, the mouth of which is closed, so that its waters can no

Psalms 9:5 — Verse Psalms 9:5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen — We know not what this particularly refers to, but it is most probably to the Canaanitish nations, which God destroyed from off the face of the earth; hence it is said, Thou hast put out their name for ever and

Proverbs 9:11 — Verse Proverbs 9:11. For by me thy days shall be multiplied — Vice shortens human life, by a necessity of consequence: and by the same, righteousness lengthens it. There is a long addition here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: "He who trusts in falsity

Proverbs 9:3 — Verse Proverbs 9:3. She hath sent forth her maidens — The wisdom of God has made use of the most proper means to communicate Divine knowledge to the inhabitants of the earth; as a good and gracious Creator wills to teach them whence they came, how they are supported,

Isaiah 38:1 — CHAPTER XXXVIII Account of Hezekiah's dangerous sickness and miraculous recovery, 1-9. Tender and beautiful song of thanksgiving, in which this pious king breathed out the sentiments of a grateful heart, when his life was, as it were, restored. This ode may be adapted to other cases; and will always afford profit and pleasure to those

Jeremiah 23:9 — Verse Jeremiah 23:9. Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets — The first word of this clause is לנבאים lannebiim, which we incorporate with the whole clause, and translate, "Because of the prophets." But as a new prophecy begins here, it is evident

Jeremiah 31:9 — Verse Jeremiah 31:9. They shall come with weeping — Duly penetrated with a sense of their sins, they shall deeply deplore them; and, while weeping for them, earnestly supplicate God to have mercy upon them.By the rivers of waters — I will so guide and provide

Jeremiah 9:3 — Verse Jeremiah 9:3. They bend their tongues like their bow for lies — And their lies are such that they as fully take away life as the keenest arrow shot from the best strung bow. The false prophets told the people that there was no desolation at hand: the people

Ezekiel 1:9 — Verse Ezekiel 1:9. Their wings were joined one to another — When their wings were extended, they formed a sort of canopy level with their own heads or shoulders; and on this canopy was the throne, and the "likeness of the man" upon it, Ezekiel 1:26.They turned

Ezekiel 14:9 — Verse Ezekiel 14:9. I the Lord have deceived that prophet — That is, he ran before he was sent; he willingly became the servant of Satan's illusions; and I suffered this to take place, because he and his followers refused to consult and serve me. I have often had

Ezekiel 37:9 — Verse Ezekiel 37:9. Prophesy unto the wind — רוח ruach. Address thyself to the soul, and command it to enter into these well-organized bodies, that they may live.Come from the four winds — SOULS, come from all parts where ye are scattered; and reanimate these

Habakkuk 2:18 — the graven image — This is against idolatry in general, and every species of it, as well as against those princes, priests, and people who practice it, and encourage others to do the same. See on the parallel passages in the margin. (Isaiah 44:9-10; Isaiah 46:2)Dumb idols? — אלילים אלמים elilim illemim, "dumb nothings." This is exactly agreeable to St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 8:4, who says, "An idol is nothing in the world." What signify the idols worshipped by the Chaldeans, Tyrians, and

Zechariah 14:9 — Verse Zechariah 14:9. And the Lord shall be King — When this universal diffusion of Divine knowledge shall take place. Wherever it goes, the laws of God shall be acknowledged; and, consequently, he shall be King over the whole earth.One Lord, and his name one. —

Zechariah 9:2 — Verse Zechariah 9:2. And Hamath also shall border thereby — Hamath on the river Orontes; and Tyre and Sidon, notwithstanding their political wisdom, address, and cunning, shall have a part in the punishment.These prophecies are more suitable to the days of Jeremiah

Malachi 2:1 — unfaithfulness in their office, for which they are threatened to be deprived of their share of the sacrifice, (the shoulder,) and rewarded only with ignominy and ordure, 1-3. The degeneracy of the order is then complained of, and they are again threatened, 4-9. The rest of the chapter reproves the people for marrying strange and idolatrous women; and multiplying divorces, with all their consequent distress, in order to make way for such illicit alliances, 10-17. See Nehemiah 10:30; Nehemiah 13:27-30, &c.

Matthew 7:8 — SHALL find-it SHALL be opened. These words are as strongly binding on the side of God, as thou shalt do no murder is on the side of man. Bring Christ's word, and Christ's sacrifice with thee, and not one of Heaven's blessings can be denied thee. Luke 11:9.

Matthew 9:5 — Verse Matthew 9:5. For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? — Both are equally easy, and equally difficult; for both require unlimited power to produce them. And every thing is equally easy to that power which is unlimited.