2. Thou hast made the earth to tremble. Nothing
was stable; the priests had been murdered by Saul, the worst men had been put
in office, the military power had been broken by the Philistines, and the civil
authority had grown despicable through insurrections and internal contests. Thou hast broken it. As the earth cracks, and opens itself in rifts during
violent earthquakes, so was the kingdom rent with strife and calamity. Heal the breaches thereof. As a house in time of earthquake is shaken, and the
walls begin to crack, and gape with threatening fissures, so was it with the
kingdom. For it shaketh. It tottered to a fall; if not soon propped up
and repaired it would come down in complete ruin. So far gone was Israel that
only God’s interposition could preserve it from utter destruction. How often
have we seen churches in this condition, and how suitable is the prayer before
us, in which the extremity of the need is used as an argument for help. The
like may be said of our own personal religion.
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