27Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
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But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-44)We have here God’s answer to Jeremiah’s prayer, designed to quiet his mind and make him easy; and it is a full discovery of the purposes of God’s wrath against the present generation and the purposes of his grace concerning the future generations. Jeremiah knew not how to sing both of mercy and judgment , but God here teaches to sing unto him of both. When we know not how to reconcile one word of…
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