5Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
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And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; …
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: …
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)This short chapter helps us to put a very comfortable construction upon a great many long ones, by showing us that the same providence which to some is a savour of death unto death may by the grace and blessing of God be made to others a savour of life unto life ; and that, though God’s people share with others in the same calamity, yet it is not the same to them that it is to others, but is desig…
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