7For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
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The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-40)This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs. I. In general, it is the use and application of the foregoing history; it comes in by way of inference from it: Now therefore harken, O Israel , Deut. 4…
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