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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 60:3

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou hast showed thy people hard things, etc.] As to have their city and temple burial, multitudes of them slain, and the rest carried captive, and put into the hands of cruel lords and hard masters, and made a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, in all places; and all this done to a people that were the Lord’s by profession, who called themselves so, though now a “loammi”, (<280109>Hosea 1:9); and these were hard things to flesh and blood, yet no other than what they deserved; thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment; or “of trembling” f809, (<235117>Isaiah 51:17); that is, to endure such troubles as made them tremble, and astonished and stupefied them; took away their senses, and made them unfit for anything, being smitten with madness, blindness, and astonishment of heart, as is threatened them, (<052828>Deuteronomy 28:28); (see <451107>Romans 11:7,8).
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