3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, …
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)These may be taken either as the words of the prophet to the people, calling them to repentance, or as the words of the people to one another, exciting and encouraging one another to seek the Lord , and to humble themselves before him, in hopes of finding mercy with him. God had said, In their affliction they will seek me ; now the prophet, and the good people his friends, would strike while the i…
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