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14661 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.10 (Matthew Henry)
… are comforted indeed whom God comforts, and may forget their troubles when he makes them to rejoice from their sorrow, not only rejoice after it, but rejoice …
14662 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.12 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfort reflect upon himself. 4. He is here recommending himself to the mercy and grace of God. He finds he is bent to backslide from God, and cannot by any …
14663 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.13 (Matthew Henry)
… mother comforts, though she had chidden him, Isaiah 66:13. Is this Ephraim my dear son? Is this that pleasant child ? Isa. it he that is thus sad in spirit and that …
14664 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.15 (Matthew Henry)
… . A comfortable prospect given them of a happy settlement in their own land again. 1. They shall have an interest in the esteem and good-will of all their neighbours …
14665 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.18 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort those that repent of their sins, and are humbled for them, as he is to punish those that continue in love with their sins, and are hardened in them.
14666 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.14 (Matthew Henry)
… with comforts and joys to them, but with glory to himself, with signs and wonders (witness the ten plagues), with a strong hand, too strong for the Egyptians themselves …
14667 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.15 (Matthew Henry)
… may comfort ourselves with this, that God sees it and sees how to remedy it.
14668 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of them. [1.] God will own them for his, and make over himself to them to be theirs ( Jeremiah 32:38 ): They shall be my people. He will make them his by working …
14669 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.2 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfortable prophecy which God entrusted Jeremiah with. It is not exact in the time, only that it was after that in the foregoing chapter, when things …
14670 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.3 (Matthew Henry)
II. The prophecy itself. A great deal of comfort is wrapped up in it for the relief of the captives, to keep them from sinking into despair. Observe,
14671 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.4 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfort to them ( Jeremiah 33:2 ): It is the Lord, the maker thereof, the Lord that framed it, He is the maker and former of heaven and earth, and therefore has all …
14672 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.5 (Matthew Henry)
… receive comforts from God must continue instant in prayer. We must call upon him, and then he will answer us. Christ himself must ask, and it shall be given him …
14673 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.6 (Matthew Henry)
… such comforts as these should be provided for it, and notwithstanding which its restoration should be brought about in due time ( Jeremiah 33:4, 33:5 ): The houses …
14674 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of what we have when God has had his dues out of it. Now because it seemed incredible that a people, reduced as now they were, should ever recover such …
14675 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 780.4 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort, shall die in peace, Jeremiah 34:5. He never had been one of the worst of the kings, but we are willing to hope that what evil he had done in the sight …
14676 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 781.5 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort in the land where they were strangers. Note, The consideration of this, that we are strangers and pilgrims, should oblige us to abstain from all …
14677 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 781.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of them. 1. That the family shall continue as long as any of the families of Israel, among whom they were strangers and sojourners. it shall never …
14678 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 783.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of religion who will not stoop to the services of it? 3. Jerusalem flattered by the retreat of the Chaldean army from it. Jeremiah was now at liberty …
14679 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 783.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort? Canst thou give us any hopes that the Chaldeans shall again retire?” Note, Those that will not hearken to God’s admonitions when they are in prosperity …
14680 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 784.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , of comfort, a word from the Lord, Jeremiah 37:17. Whatever word thou has for me hide it not from me; let me know the worst.” He had been told plainly what things would …