4And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. …
He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Two great truths are abundantly made out in these verses:— I. That the people of God are a happy people, especially upon account of the covenant that is between them and God. The people of Israel were so as a figure of the gospel Israel. Three things complete their happiness:— 1. The covenant-relations wherein they stand to God, Isa. 44:1 , 2 . Israel is here called Jeshurun—the upright one ; for…
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