An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

There is a great elegance in the Hebrew text; 'tis a word of the same root which signifieth the poor who are delivered, and the affliction in which or out of which he or they are delivered. We may translate the text thus; he delivereth the poor in his poverty; that is, when he is in his poverty or affliction, the Lord delivereth him out of his poverty, or affliction; if poverty be his affliction, o• whatsoever affliction comes under the name of poverty,¹ the Lord delivereth him out of it. I have upon other passages of this book spoken of this deliverance, yet shall touch it here again, because we ought always to remember it; we are often in affliction, often in trouble, and therefore we have need often to be put in mind, and continually to bear in mind, that God is a deliverer, the deliverer of his people from, or out of afflictions; He delivereth the poor in his affliction.

There is a great elegancy in the Hebrew text; 'tis a word of the same root which signifieth the poor who are delivered, and the affliction in which or out of which he or they are delivered. We may translate the text thus; he delivereth the poor in his poverty; that is, when he is in his poverty or affliction, the Lord delivere•h him out of his poverty, or affliction; if poverty be his affliction, o• whatsoever affliction comes under the name of poverty,¹ the Lord delivereth him out of it. I have upon other passages of this book spoken of this deliverance, yet shall touch it here again, because we ought always to remember it; we are often in affliction, often in trouble, and therefore we have need of•en to be put in mind, and continually to bear in mind, that God is a deliverer, the deliverer of his people from, or out of afflictions; He delivereth the poor in his affliction.

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