Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The "trouble" consisted in rebuke" (rather, "chastisement," ) for sins at the hand of God, and "blasphemy" (rather, "reproach," ) at the hands of man.
The children ... - i. e., "we are in a fearful extremity - at the last gasp - and lack the strength that might carry us through the danger."
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