9And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. …
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. …
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)Here is a prophecy, I. Of the sufferings of Christ, of him who was to be pierced, and was to be the fountain opened. Awake, O sword! against my Shepherd , Zech. 13:7. These are the words of God the Father, giving order and commission to the sword of his justice to awake against his Son, when he had voluntarily made his soul an offering for sin; for it pleased the Lord to bruise him and put him to…
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