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13861 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 552.28 (Matthew Henry)

… , and comfort fail. [2.] Sovereign relief provided in this distress: But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. Note, Gracious souls, in their greatest …

13862 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.1 (Matthew Henry)

… in comfortable pleas for the encouraging of their faith in prayer, Psalms 74:12-74:17. III. He concludes with divers petitions to God for deliverances, Psalms …

13863 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.7 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of these gracious discoveries. God spoke once, yea, twice, good words and comfortable words, but they perceived them not. Observe, They do not complain …

13864 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.13 (Matthew Henry)

… of comfort than we have to despair of day and summer.

13865 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 555.10 (Matthew Henry)

II. Comfort to God’s people, Psalms 76:10. We live in a very angry provoking world; we often feel much, and are apt to fear more, from the wrath of man, which seems boundless …

13866 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.1 (Matthew Henry)

… with comfortable encouragements. The complaints seem to be of personal grievances, but the encouragements relate to the public concerns of the church …

13867 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.2 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfortable sense of, as he had afterwards; but he inserts it in the beginning of his narrative as an intimation that his trouble did not end in despair …

13868 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.4 (Matthew Henry)

… be comforted; he had no mind to hearken to those that would be his comforters. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart, Proverbs 25:20. Nor …

13869 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.5 (Matthew Henry)

… would comfort him, but it did not: I remembered God and was troubled, as poor Job ( Job 23:15 ); I am troubled at his presence; when I consider I am afraid of him. When he …

13870 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.6 (Matthew Henry)

… the comforts we have lost make us unthankful for those that are left, or impatient under our crosses. Particularly, he called to remembrance his song in the …

13871 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.11 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of what he has done and encourage ourselves with it. 2. That he is a God of almighty power ( Psalms 77:14 ): “ Thou art the God that alone doest wonders, above …

13872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 557.12 (Matthew Henry)

… little comfort and to so little purpose, is because we do not live by faith.

13873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 559.3 (Matthew Henry)

… very comfortable in prayer to look up to God as sitting on a throne of grace, and that it is so to us is owning to the great propitiation, for the mercy-seat was …

13874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.1 (Matthew Henry)

… we comfort ourselves with a belief of his present government and with the hopes of his future judgment.

13875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.3 (Matthew Henry)

… be comforted with it; for good princes and good judges, who mean well, are under a divine direction, and bad ones, who mean ever so ill, are under a divine restraint …

13876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.4 (Matthew Henry)

… , whose comfort they must consult and whose cause they must espouse.

13877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.8 (Matthew Henry)

… to comfort ourselves with, that the earth is not given so much into the hands of the wicked, the wicked rulers, as we are tempted to think it is, Job 9:24. But God has …

13878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.6 (Matthew Henry)

… the comforts God has provided for the pilgrims to the heavenly city. (4.) They are such as are still pressing forward till they come to their journey’s end at …

13879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.10 (Matthew Henry)

… their comfortable passage through this world. Make sure grace and glory, and other things shall be added. This is a comprehensive promise, and is such an assurance …

13880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 564.4 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfortable evidences of that mercy; let us know that thou hast mercy on us and mercy in store for us.” 4. They pray that God would, graciously to them and gloriously …