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14681 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 785.9 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable to him. The same that were the instruments of punishing the persecutors were the instruments of relieving the persecuted; and Jeremiah …
14682 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 785.10 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts to the fears and griefs of his people, for he knows their souls in adversity. 3. That he shall be delivered from having a share in the common calamity …
14683 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 786.3 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort. However, we may commend his pious affection to the land of Israel, that unless he were forced out of it, as Ezekiel, and Daniel, and other good men were …
14684 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 786.5 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable prospect given them of some peace and quietness after the many years of trouble and terror with which they had been afflicted. Jeremiah indeed …
14685 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 787.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort in real fears that excuse themselves in sin with pretended fears.
14686 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 788.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts we may read God’s mercies. God will show them mercy in this, that not only the king of Babylon shall not destroy them, but he shall have mercy upon …
14687 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 789.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforting them; but only two messages of his, which he had received immediately from God, are recorded, one in this chapter, relating to Egypt itself and …
14688 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 790.6 (Matthew Henry)
… all comfort and hope ( Jeremiah 44:8 ), to cut off your name and honour; so that you will, both by your sin and by your misery, become a curse and a reproach among all …
14689 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 790.7 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfort is much surer than that in which we have projected it for ourselves. Observe, Those that are fretful and discontented will be uneasy and fond of …
14690 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 790.21 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts and confidences that we promise ourselves most from may fail us as soon as those that we promise ourselves least from, for they are all …
14691 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 791.1 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort; for God despises not any of his servants, but graciously concerns himself for the meanest and weakest, for Baruch the scribe as well as for Jeremiah …
14692 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 791.3 (Matthew Henry)
… or comfort.” Baruch was a good man, but, we must say, this was his infirmity. Note, 1. Young beginners in religion, like fresh-water soldiers, are apt to be discouraged …
14693 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 791.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him, and yet knew not which way to go about it; but God tells him what he shall say to him, Jeremiah 45:4. Jeremiah could not be certain what was at the bottom …
14694 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 792.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to the Israel of God in the midst of those calamities, Jeremiah 46:27, 46:28 .
14695 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 792.15 (Matthew Henry)
II. Comfort and peace are here spoken to the Israel of God, Jeremiah 46:27, 46:28. Some understand it of those whom the king of Egypt had carried into captivity …
14696 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 794.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of that creature which we repose that confidence in which should be reposed in God only. The reed will break that is leaned upon. 2. It is because …
14697 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 794.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , no comfort is, Jeremiah 48:18. It is time for them to sit in thirst, and inure themselves to hardship, when the spoiler has come, who will strip them of all, and empty …
14698 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 794.17 (Matthew Henry)
… ends comfortably: Thus far is the judgment of Moab .
14699 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 795.3 (Matthew Henry)
… for comfort to the Israel of God, whose afflictions were very much aggravated by their triumphs over them and joy in their calamity, Psalms 137:7. Many of the …
14700 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 795.4 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort if he have a friend to leave his family with, whom he can confide in; but they shall have none such, for they shall all be involved in the same calamity …