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14721 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it in the midst of our lamentations.
14722 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.7 (Matthew Henry)
… unspeakable comfort and satisfaction) to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord, to hope that it will come, thought the difficulties that lie …
14723 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.9 (Matthew Henry)
… seasonable comforts according to the time that he has afflicted them, Lamentations 3:31, 3:32. Therefore the sufferer is thus penitent, thus patient, because …
14724 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts administered to the afflicted in the Lamentations 3:21-3:36, and may taste the sweetness of them, we have here the duties of an afflicted state …
14725 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.13 (Matthew Henry)
… . This comfort I receive from the hand of God, and shall I not receive that evil also? so Job argues, Job 2:10. Are we healthful or sickly, rich or poor? Do we succeed …
14726 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.14 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort ourselves with which they have not. 2. We are living men. Through the good hand of our God upon us we are alive yet, though dying daily; and shall a living …
14727 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.20 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of the pardon; the judgments brought upon them for their sins were not removed, and therefore they thought they could not say the sin was pardoned …
14728 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.22 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfortable expectation.
14729 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.24 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort, by which it appears that their case was not altogether so bad as they made it, Lamentations 3:50. We continue thus weeping till the Lord look down …
14730 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.25 (Matthew Henry)
… then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Psalms 42:1-42:11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes …
14731 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.27 (Matthew Henry)
II. He comforts himself with an appeal to God’s justice, and (in order to the sentence of that) to his omniscience.
14732 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.29 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort even of these visible ones, which are the heavens of the Lord ( Psalms 115:16 ) and which those therefore are unworthy to be taken under the protection …
14733 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 802.13 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts; the days of our prosperity are fulfilled; they are numbered and finished.” Thus their fears concurred with the hopes of their enemies that the …
14734 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 802.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort, which is as life from the dead and light shining out of darkness; so does this lamentation here in this chapter. The people of God are now in great …
14735 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 803.2 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to us, so it ought to be a sufficient one, in our troubles, that God sees, and considers, and remembers, all that has come upon us; and in our prayers …
14736 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 803.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort, and exposed to wrong and injury, and this is our reproach; for we who made a figure are now looked on with contempt.”
14737 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 803.13 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort if we can appeal to God that that afflicts us more than any temporal affliction to ourselves. “The people have polluted the mountain of Zion with …
14738 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 803.14 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts are removed from us, and our hearts fail us, we may then encourage ourselves with the belief, 1. Of God’s eternity: Thou remainest for ever …
14739 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 803.15 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of. The Lamentations 5:22 may be read as such an expostulation, and so the margin reads it: “ For wilt thou utterly reject us? Wilt thou be perpetually …
14740 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 803.16 (Matthew Henry)
… first comforts. God’s mercies to his people have been ever of old ( Psalms 25:6 ); and therefore they may hope, even then when he seems to have forsaken and forgotten …