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14601 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to us, when men deal unjustly with us, that we have a God to go to who does and will plead the cause of injured innocency and appear against the injurious …
14602 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it. It is as bad to God’s faithful ministers to have their mouth stopped as to have their breath stopped. But especially when it was resolved …
14603 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . What comfort he had in appealing to God concerning his own integrity ( Jeremiah 12:3 ): But thou, O Lord! knowest me. Probably the wicked men he complains of were …
14604 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.20 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of his people.
14605 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 759.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , for comfort and relief, he will turn it into the shadow of death, which is very dismal and terrible, and make it gross darkness, like that of Egypt, when Pharaoh …
14606 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.4 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts. 3. Their relation to God, their interest in him, and their expectations from him grounded thereupon, are most pathetically pleaded with …
14607 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.8 (Matthew Henry)
… miserable comforters one to another.
14608 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, Jeremiah 15:15-15:18. 4. Fresh security is given him that, upon condition he continue faithful, God will continue his care of him and his favour …
14609 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.8 (Matthew Henry)
… uncertain comforts children are; and let us therefore rejoice in them as though we rejoiced not. When the children are slain the mother gives up the ghost …
14610 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.14 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable to thee than those hitherto have been.” Thy end shall be good; so the Chaldee reads it. Note, It is a great and sufficient support to the people …
14611 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to us that, whatever ails us, we have a God to go to, before whom we may spread our case and to whose omniscience we may appeal, as the prophet here, “ O Lord …
14612 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.17 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort to him: “ Visit me; not only remember me, but let me know that thou rememberest me, that thou art nigh unto me.” (3.) That he would appear for him against those …
14613 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.21 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort that he had given up himself wholly to the business of his office and had done nothing either to divert himself from it or disfit himself for it …
14614 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.22 (Matthew Henry)
… my comfort or my credit? I once little thought that I should be thus neglected; will the God that has promised me his presence be to me as a liar, the God on whom …
14615 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.23 (Matthew Henry)
II. God’s gracious answer to this address, Jeremiah 15:19-15:21. Though the prophet betrayed much human frailty in his address, yet God vouchsafed to answer him with good words and comfortable words; for he knows our frame. Observe,
14616 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , speaking comfort to precious saints and terror to vile sinners, neither making the heart of the righteous sad nor strengthening the hands of the wicked …
14617 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.25 (Matthew Henry)
… , had comfort and honour enough in it to be its own wages: “ Thou shalt stand before me, to receive instructions from me, as a servant from his master; and thou shalt …
14618 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 762.3 (Matthew Henry)
… greatest comforts may prove not only our heaviest cares, but our sorest crosses!
14619 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 762.4 (Matthew Henry)
… no comforters; every one will find it enough to bear his own burden; for ( Jeremiah 16:5 ), “ I have taken away my peace from this people, put a full period to their prosperity …
14620 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 762.6 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfortable society, to be an allay to your misery.” Justly were those banished into a strange land who doted upon strange gods, which neither they nor their …