8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. …
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-8)The time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, having come, the people of God must be prepared, by repentance and faith, for the favours designed them; and, in order to call them to both these, we have here the voice of one crying in the wilderness , which may be applied to those prophets who were with the captives in their wilderness-state, and who, when they saw the day of their deliverance dawn, c…
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