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13841 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort himself with, but found himself in deep waters that overflowed him, overwhelmed him; he was like a sinking drowning man, in such confusion and consternation …
13842 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort in praying which God’s people used to have; so that he was almost weary of crying, grew hoarse, and his throat so dried that he could cry no more. Nor …
13843 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort, that he had a God to go to, with whom he would lodge his cause. “They think to carry their cause by insolence and calumny; but I use other methods. Whatever …
13844 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.14 (Matthew Henry)
… (miserable comforters are they all); nor can we expect too much from God, for he is the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort and consolation.
13845 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.17 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts, even their necessary food; they had given Christ gall and vinegar, and therefore justly shall their meat and drink be made gall and vinegar …
13846 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort either of that knowledge or of that peace which believers are blessed with in the gospel of Christ ( Psalms 69:23 ), that they should be given up, (1.) To …
13847 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.26 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to us that humble and thankful praises are more pleasing to God than the most costly pompous sacrifices are or ever were.
13848 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.27 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted, concluding that, if they suffer with him, they shall also reign with him.
13849 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 549.2 (Matthew Henry)
… in comfort and relief. We may in prayer use the words we have often used before: our Saviour in his agony prayed thrice, saying the same words; so David here uses …
13850 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 549.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the saints, and to the glory of God, cannot but say a hearty amen to this prayer, that those who love God’s salvation may say continually, Let God …
13851 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortably assured that he will not cast them off in old age, nor forsake them when their strength fails them. He is a Master that is not wont to cast off old …
13852 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.19 (Matthew Henry)
… only comfort me, but comfort me on every side, so that I shall see nothing black or threatening on any side.” Note, Sometimes God makes his people’s troubles contribute …
13853 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.20 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort their vexation.
13854 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable knowledge of ( Psalms 71:15 ): My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation; and again ( Psalms 71:24 ), My tongue shall talk of thy …
13855 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.1 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted himself in his dying moments when he foresaw that his house would not be so with God, not so great not so good, as he wished. David, in spirit, I. Begins …
13856 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to David that his own son was to be his successor, but more so that he was likely to be both judicious and righteous. David had given him a good education …
13857 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.12 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable to all his faithful loving subjects ( Psalms 72:6 ): He shall, by the graces and comforts of his Spirit, come down like rain upon the mown grass …
13858 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 552.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of this life. They live at ease, and bathe themselves in pleasures, so that their eyes stand out with fatness, Psalms 73:7. See what the excess of pleasure …
13859 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 552.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort or hope remains to them; the higher they were lifted up in their prosperity the sorer will their fall be when they are cast down into destructions …
13860 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 552.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted in the choice he had made of him, Psalms 73:25, 73:26. His thoughts here dwell with delight upon his own happiness in God, as much greater then the …