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15021 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.11 (Matthew Henry)
… continual comfort to God’s people, under the troubles of this present life, that their God is from everlasting. This intimates, (1.) The eternity of his nature …
15022 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.13 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to God’s suffering people. Men are God’s hand, the rod in his hand, Psalms 17:14. And he has ordained them for judgment, and for correction. God’s …
15023 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.14 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable to the people of God, in their afflictions by the rage of men, that they cannot infer God’s anger from it; though the instruments of their trouble …
15024 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, he will bring to our souls, that we may receive it, and submit to the power of it, and may consider what we shall answer, what returns we shall make to …
15025 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable words, Zechariah 1:13. The prophet had complained of the prevalence of the Chaldeans, which God had given him a prospect of; now, to pacify him …
15026 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.6 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably in communion with God, dependence on him, and expectation of him. The just shall live by faith; during the captivity good people shall support …
15027 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort he might in his own palace, in his own dominion. His sin is his punishment, his ambition is his perpetual uneasiness. Though the home be a palace, yet …
15028 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.13 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to a house ( a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children ), but what is got by fraud and injustice is ill-got, and will be poor gain, will …
15029 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.1 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortable and glorious at last, though all visible means fail, Habakkuk 3:16-3:19 .
15030 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted under it. He thinks it very long to wait till the end of the years; perhaps he refers to the seventy years fixed for the continuance of the captivity …
15031 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.16 (Matthew Henry)
… creature comforts and enjoyments, not only of the delights of this life, but even of the necessary supports of it, Habakkuk 3:17. Famine is one of the ordinary …
15032 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.17 (Matthew Henry)
… creature comforts and even then can sing to the praise and glory of God, as the God of their salvation. This is the principal ground of our joy in God, that he is …
15033 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 908.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort, or glimpse of hope; look round, and it is all black. It is a day of clouds and thick darkness; there is not only nothing encouraging, but every thing threatening …
15034 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 908.10 (Matthew Henry)
… or comfort, and falling at length into the ditch. Because they have sinned against the Lord he will deliver them into the hands of cruel enemies, that shall …
15035 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 909.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . To comfort them with this thought, that their case, though sad, should not be singular ( Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris — The wretched find it consolatory …
15036 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of their relation to him and interest in him ( Zephaniah 3:12 ): I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people. When the Chaldeans carried …
15037 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of the gospel, in the hope, and much more in the enjoyment, of which, they are here called upon, 1. To rejoice and sing ( Zephaniah 3:14 ): Sing, O daughter …
15038 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.21 (Matthew Henry)
… abundant comfort in both, he is in the midst of thee, nigh at hand to answer both.” 3. “He that is in the midst of thee as thy God and King is mighty, is almighty, is able …
15039 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.23 (Matthew Henry)
… will comfort Zion’s mourners, who sympathize with her in her griefs, and will wipe away their tears ( Zephaniah 3:18 ): I will gather those who are sorrowful for …
15040 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 911.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , either comfortable or afflictive, serving us or incommoding us. Nothing among the inferior creatures is so necessary and beneficial to the world as the …