13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors. Scorn is always an intensely bitter ingredient in the cup of the
oppressed. The taunts and jeers of the victors pain the vanquished almost as
much as their swords and spears. It was a mystery indeed that God should suffer
his royal nation to be taunted by all who dwelt near them. A scorn and aderision to them that are round about us. The down-trodden people had
become a common jest. The psalmist sets forth the brutality of the enemy in
many words, in order to move the pity of the Lord, to whose just anger he
traced all the sorrows of his people; he used the very best of arguments, for
the sufferings of his chosen touch the heart of God far more readily than any
other reasonings. Our great Advocate above knows how to avail himself of this
powerful plea, and if we are at this hour enduring reproach for truth’s sake,
he will urge it before the eternal throne. A father will not long endure to see
his children despitefully treated.
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