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2Ch_29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.
Ver. 9. For, lo, our fathers have fallen.] 2Ch_28:5-6.
For this,] i.e., For sin, that mother of all misery.
It is in my heart.] Or, With my heart. God put it there doubtless; for the heart of the best is naturally as barren of any good as they report the isle of Patmos is, where nothing will grow but on earth brought from other places. It is with holy resolutions, saith one, as with exotic noble plants: this country is not so kindly for them, being but a step-mother to them, therefore they must be much watered and cherished.