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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Psalms 106:15 - 106:15
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but sent leanness - rather, “and sent,” that is, and thus, even in doing so, the punishment was inflicted at the very time their request was granted. So Psa 78:30, “While their meat was yet in their mouths, the wrath of God came upon them.”
soul - the animal soul, which craves for food (Num 11:6; Psa 107:18). This soul got its wish, and with it and in it its own punishment. The place was therefore called Kibroth-hattaavah, “the graves of lust” [Num 11:34], because there they buried the people who had lusted. Animal desires when gratified mostly give only a hungry craving for more (Jer 2:13).