14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. …
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. …
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-23)The state of Israel ruined by their own sin did not look so black and dismal in the former part of the chapter, but that the state of Israel, restrained by the divine grace, looks as bright and pleasant here in the latter part of the chapter, and the more surprisingly so as the promises follow thus close upon the threatenings; nay, which is very strange, they are by a note of connexion joined to,…
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