Wesley Corpus

Destruction - To destroy me. Mar - As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it. Set forward - Increasing it by their invectives, and censures. Even they - Who are themselves in a forlorn and miserable condition. Waste place - In the waste place; in that part of the bank which was broken down. They rolled - As the waters, come rolling in at the breach. Terrors - If he endeavoured to shake them off, they turned furiously upon him: if he endeavoured to out run them, they pursued his soul, as swiftly and violently as the wind. I stand - I pray importunately and continually. Turned - As if thou hadst changed thy very nature, which is kind, and merciful, and gracious. Thou - Thou exposest me, to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. Substance - By which, my body is almost consumed, and my heart is melted within me. House appointed - The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house, but there we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our mother's lap, and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is an house appointed for us, by him that has appointed the bounds of all our habitations. And it is appointed for all living. It is the common receptacle for rich and poor: we must all be brought thither, and that shortly. To the grave - The hand of God's wrath will not follow me beyond death; I shall then be safe and easy: Tho' men cry in his destruction: tho' most men cry and are affrighted, while they are dying, while the body is sinking into destruction; yet I desire it, I have nothing to fear therein, since I know that my redeemer liveth. Did not I - Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy to others in misery No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn over others in their miseries. Upon me - Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it not. Affliction - Came upon me suddenly, and unexpectedly, when I promised myself peace and prosperity. Without the sun - Heb. black, not by the sun.