3: Gathered - Into their own land.
4: No city - Or rather, no town inhabited, where they might refresh themselves.
6: The Lord - Heb. Unto Jehovah, to the true God. For the Heathens had, many of them, some knowledge of the true God.
7: Forth - Out of the wilderness.
10: Darkness - In dark prisons or dungeons.
12: Heart - The pride and obstinacy of their hearts. Fell - They fell into hopeless miseries.
17: Afflicted - With sickness.
20: Word - His command, or blessing.
32: Exalt him - In public assemblies, and before all persons, as they have opportunity. Elders - The magistrates or rulers; let them not be ashamed nor afraid to speak of God's wonderful works, before the greatest of men.
33: Rivers - Those grounds which are well watered, and therefore fruitful. And so the water - springs, here, and the standing water, ver.(35) are taken. Into - Into a dry ground, which is like a parched and barren wilderness.
34: For - He doth not inflict these judgments without cause, but for the punishment of sin in some, and the prevention of it in others.
35: Water - Into a well - watered and fruitful land.
36: Hungry - Poor people who could not provide for themselves.
39: They - These men, who when they are exalted by God, grow insolent and secure. Low - By God's just judgment.
40: Contempt - Renders them despicable. Wander - Banishes them from their own courts and kingdoms, and forces them to flee into desolate wildernesses for shelter.
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