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13941 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 583.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of man. 1. The shadows of the evening befriend the repose of the night ( Psalms 104:20 ): Thou makes darkness and it is night, which, though black, contributes …
13942 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.11 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortably provided for many years. Thus the New-Testament church has a place provided for her even in the wilderness, where she is nourished for a time …
13943 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 585.1 (Matthew Henry)
… :2 ), comfort to the saints ( Psalms 106:3 ), and the desire of the faithful towards God’s favour, Psalms 106:4, 106:5. II. The narrative itself of the sins of Israel, aggravated …
13944 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 585.5 (Matthew Henry)
… present comfort. 3. He has an eye to the blessedness of the righteous, as that which includes all good ( Psalms 106:5 ): “ That I may see the good of thy chosen and be as …
13945 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.1 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortable to sing this psalm, with application; but, if we be not, others are, and have been, of whose deliverances it becomes us to give God the glory, for we …
13946 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life, and their liberty was to them life from the dead, Psalms 107:14. Were they fettered? He broke their bands asunder. Were they imprisoned in …
13947 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of this life depends upon the soil in which our lot is cast. Now, (1.) The sin of man has often marred the fruitfulness of the soil and made it unserviceable …
13948 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.16 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to a good man to see how God manages the children of men, as the potter does the clay, so as to serve his own purposes by them, to see despised virtue …
13949 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 587.1 (Matthew Henry)
… take comfort to ourselves.
13950 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 587.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of what God has secured to us and settled upon us, though we are not yet put in possession of it. God had promised David to give him, (1.) The hearts of his …
13951 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.1 (Matthew Henry)
… must comfort ourselves with the believing foresight of the certain destruction of all the enemies of Christ and his church, and the certain salvation of …
13952 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.2 (Matthew Henry)
It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God is for them, and to him they may apply as to one that is pleased to concern himself for them. Thus David here.
13953 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of that: But I give myself unto prayer ( Psalms 109:4 ), I prayer (so it is in the original); “I am for prayer, I am a man of prayer, I love prayer, and prize prayer …
13954 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.9 (Matthew Henry)
… in comfort; but they shall be vagabonds and shall beg; they shall not have a house of their own to live in, nor any certain dwelling-place, nor know where to have …
13955 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.10 (Matthew Henry)
… have comforted and healed. Here is a barbarous man indeed, not it to live. (2.) He had loved cursing, and therefore let the curse come upon his head, Psalms 109:17-109 …
13956 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.11 (Matthew Henry)
David, having denounced God’s wrath against his enemies, here takes God’s comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting.
13957 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.12 (Matthew Henry)
… not comforted .
13958 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.13 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort lift up our heart to God in this petition: Let them curse, but bless thou. He prays ( Psalms 109:28 ), Let thy servant rejoice. Those that know how to value …
13959 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 589.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of Christians. The priesthood of Christ is confirmed by the highest ratifications possible, that it might be an unshaken foundation for our …
13960 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 589.23 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforting them ( Psalms 110:7 ); for their benefit, 1. He shall be humbled: He shall drink of the brook in the way, that bitter cup which the Father put into his …