6Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)We have here a further account of that covenant of grace which is made with us in Jesus Christ, both what is required and what is promised in the covenant, and of those considerations that are sufficient abundantly to confirm our believing compliance with and reliance on that covenant. This gracious discovery of God’s good-will to the children of men is not to be confined either to the Jew or to t…
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