Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:19Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
Proverbs 25:21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
Treasury of Scripture
As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar on nitre, so is he that singes songs to an heavy heart.
that taketh
Deuteronomy 24:12-17
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: …
Job 24:7-10
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold…
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
vinegar
Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
so
Psalm 137:3,4
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion…
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Daniel 6:18
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
