“Whatever our condition is, how many soever our griefs and fears, let it be owned that God is good; and, whatever fails, that his mercy fails not. Let this be sung with application, as here; not only his mercy endures for ever, but it endures for ever towards Israel... [Whether] captives in a strange land [or] strangers in their own land. However it be, yet God is good to Israel, good to us.” -Matthew Henry
