30. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 2 SAM. xxii. 7. 31. They prevented me in the day of calamity:* but the Lord was my stay. 2 SAM. xxii. 19. 32. The afflicted people thou wilt save. my 33. The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. 2 SAM. xxii. 47. 34. Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great. 2 SAM. xxiv. 14. 35. Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. 2 KINGS iv. 26. * "His enemies employed every method of treachery and malice to prevent his success."-REV. T. SCOTT. 36. The Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. 2 KINGS XIV. 26, 27. 37. And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. 2 KINGS XIX. 14. 38. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.-See 2 KINGS XX. 1—6; 2 CHRON. Xxxii. 24; ISA. xxxviii. 1—5. 39. When they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. 2 CHRON. Xv. 4. 40. And when he [Manasseh] was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. 2 CHRON. XXXiii. 12, 13. 41. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. NEH. ix. 33. 42. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. JOB i. 20, 21. 43. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? JOB ii. 10. 44. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. JOB iii. 17. 45. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: for he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. JOB V. 17-19. 46. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. JOB xiv. 1. 47. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. JOB Xix. 25-27. 48. When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only. JOB XXXIV. 29. 49. Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no JOB XXXIV. 31, 32. more. 50. Should it be according to thy mind? JOB XXXIV. 33. 51. Take heed, regard not iniquity for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. JOB XXXVI. 21. 52. Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. JOB Xl. 1, 2. wwwww 53. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. JOB xlii. 10. 54. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord; |