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13881 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 564.5 (Matthew Henry)
… with comforts spoken to us, revive us with deliverances wrought for us? Thou hast been favourable to thy land formerly, and that revived it; wilt thou not again …
13882 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 564.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it; and so must we: “ I will hear what God the Lord will speak, hear the assurances he gives of peace, in answer to prayer.” When God speaks peace we must …
13883 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 564.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the Old-Testament saints that, though they lived not to see that redemption in Jerusalem which they waited for, yet they were sure it was nigh …
13884 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 564.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of peace. If truth spring out of the earth, that is (as Dr. Hammond expounds it), out of the hearts of men, the proper soil for it to grow in, righteousness …
13885 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 565.3 (Matthew Henry)
… inward comfort ( Psalms 86:4 ): Rejoice the soul of thy servant. It is God only that can put gladness into the heart and make the soul to rejoice, and then, and not till …
13886 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 565.4 (Matthew Henry)
… is comfortable if an affliction finds the wheels of prayer a-going, and that hey are not then to be set a-going. [2.] To be inward with God in prayer, to lift up his soul …
13887 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 565.6 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, in reference to the wickedness of the world we live in, that, however it be, God is good. Men are barbarous, but God is gracious; men are false, but God …
13888 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 565.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted me, and that therefore they have been striving against God, opposing one whom he owns, and that they have been striving in vain to ruin and vex …
13889 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort or joy, but, from first to last, it is mourning and woe. It is not upon a public account that the psalmist here complains (here is no mention of the afflictions …
13890 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.2 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort for himself, an instructor and comforter of others, and yet himself putting comfort away from him. The very first words of the psalm are the only …
13891 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.3 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort that he had prayed; it is his complaint that, notwithstanding his prayer, he was still in affliction. He was, 1. Very earnest in prayer: “ I have cried …
13892 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.7 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort to have those about us that love us, and sympathize with us; but this good man had none such, which gives him occasion, not to accuse them, or charge …
13893 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in comfort nor return them in praise.” Now we will not suppose these expostulations to be the language of despair, as if he thought God could not help him or would …
13894 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.11 (Matthew Henry)
… found comfort in so doing, and therefore I will continue to do so; in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee .” Note, Though our prayers be not answered immediately …
13895 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to him ( Psalms 88:18 ): Lover and friend hast thou put far from me; some are dead, others at a distance, and perhaps many unkind. Next to the comforts of religion …
13896 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.1 (Matthew Henry)
… takes comfort to himself and his friends. This he does more briefly, mentioning God’s mercy and truth ( Psalms 89:1 ) and his covenant ( Psalms 89:2-89:4 ), but more largely …
13897 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of his people, “ I have made a covenant, and therefore will make it good.” The covenant is made with David; the covenant of royalty is made with him, as …
13898 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.4 (Matthew Henry)
… constant comfort it is that there is a promise, and that he is faithful who has promised.” It is expected from God’s saints on earth that they praise him; who should …
13899 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to the church, in reference to the present power of Babylon; for God is still the same. 3. The incontestable property he has in all the creatures of the …
13900 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts from God’s favour and are very careful to keep ourselves in his love.