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ADRAMMELECH, an Assyrian idol introduced into Samaria, 2 Kin. 17.31.

son of Sennacherib, murders him, 2 Kin. 19.37. Isa. 37.38.

ADRAMYTTIUM, a seaport of Mysia,

Act. 27.2.

ADRIA, the Adriatic Sea, Act. 27.27. ADRIEL, marries Merab, Saul's daughter, 1 Sam. 18.19. His sons slain, 2 Sam. 21.8 (marg.).

ADULLAM, a cave in the mountains near the Dead Sea, David hides in, 1 Sam. 22.1. 2 Sam. 23.13. 1 Chr. 11.15. Psa. 57 (title). Psa. 142 (title).

a Canaanitish town, afterwards belonging to Judah, Gen. 38.1. Jos. 12.15. Jos. 15.35. Mic. 1.15. Fortified by Rehoboam, 2 Chr. 11.7. Inhabited after the captivity,

Neh. 11.30.

ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS. Gen. 20.3. Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

Ex. 20.14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Deu. 5.18. Mat. 5.27. Luk. 18.20. Jas. 2.1.

Lev. 19.29. Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. Deu. 23.17.

2 Sam. 12.14. By this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme.

Job 31.9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. v. 1.

Pro. 2.18. Her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. v. 16-19.

Pro. 5.3. The lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. v. 5-22.

Pro. 6.27. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28. Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29. So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Pro. 6.32. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 33. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. v. 24-26. 7.5-23.

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escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. v. 27,28.

Jer. 3.1. If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?

Jer. 5.9. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? v. 7,8.

Jer. 7.9. Will ye commit adultery; 10. And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jer. 29.23. They have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord. Eze. 22.9-11. Eze. 33.26. Amo. 2.7.

Hos. 4.1. The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. 2. By committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 11. Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.

Mat. 5.28. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 32. Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Luk. 16.18.

Mat. 15.19. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications.

Act. 15.20. That they abstain from fornication.

Rom. 1.24. God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. v. 25-29.

Rom. 7.3. If, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress.

Rom. 13.13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness.

1 Cor. 3.17. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

1 Cor. 5.1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

1 Cor. 5.3. For I, verily, have judged already, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 5. To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1 Cor. 5.11. I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, with such an one no not to eat. v. 9,10.

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1 Cor. 6.9. Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Shall inherit the kingdom of God. 13. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Cor. 6.15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 18. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Cor. 10.8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

2 Cor. 12.21. I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Gal. 5.19. The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 21. Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Eph. 4.17. Walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; 19. Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20. But ye have not so learned Christ.

Eph. 5.3. But fornication, and all uncleanness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; 5. Ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Eph. 5.11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Col. 3.5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence: 8. Put off all these; filthy communication out of your mouth.

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1 The. 4.3. This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5. Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 7. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Heb. 12.16. Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person.

Heb. 13.4. Whoremongers, and adulterers, God will judge.

1 Pet. 4.3. The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts 4. Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

2 Pet. 2.10. Chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls.

Jude, 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Jude 8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh. 10. What they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Rev. 2.14. Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to commit fornication.

Rev. 2.20. Thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication. 21. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

Rev. 9.21. Neither repented they of their fornication.

Rev. 21.8.

The abominable, and whoremongers, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Rev. 22.15. For without are dogs, and whoremongers.

ADULTERY, EXAMPLES OF. Sodomites, Gen. 19.5-8. Lot. Gen. 19.31-38. Shechem, Gen. 34.2. Reuben, Gen. 35.22. Judah, Gen. 38.1-24. Potiphar's wife, Gen. 39.7-12. Samson, Jud. 16.1. Eli's sons, 1 Sam. 2.22. David, 2 Sam. 11.1-5. Amnon, 2 Sam. 13.1-20. Absalom, 2 Sam. 16.22. Israelites, Jer. 5.7-9. Jer. 29.23. Eze. 22.9-11. Eze. 33.26. Herod, Mar. 6.17,18. Samaritan woman, Jno. 4.18. A woman, Jno. 8.3-11. Corinthians, 1 Cor. 5.1. Gentiles, Eph. 4.17-19. 1 Pet. 4.3.

Jewish Law and Punishment. Ex. 22.16. Lev. 18.20-23. Lev. 19.20-22. Lev. 20.10-21. Lev. 21.9. Num. 5.12-31. Deu. 22. 20-30. Deu. 27.20-23. Jno. 8.5. ADVENT, SECOND. See CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.

ADVERSITY. See AFFLICTION-POOR. ADVOCATE. Christ is our advocate, 1 Jno. 2.1. See CHRIST, HIGH-PRIEST.

AFFLICTION, ITS BENEFITS AND DESIGN. Gen. 22.12 Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. v. 1-14.

Deu. 8.2. Remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Deu. 8.3. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deu. 8.5. Consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. 16. That he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end.

Deu. 31.17. I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Jud. 2.21. I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died. 22. That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

2 Sam. 7.14. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

1 Kin. 8.33.

When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray. 47. If they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 48. And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers. v. 35. Deu. 4.30,31. Deu. 30.1,2.

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Job 33.17. That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain.

Job 36.8. If they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 9. Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. 10. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Psa. 50.15. Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psa. 89.30. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Psa. 94.12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law; 13. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Psa. 126.5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Pro. 3.11. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: 12. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Pro. 20.30. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Ecc. 7.2. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning.

Isa. 1.25. I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 26. Afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, The faithful city. 27. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteous

ness.

Isa. 4.4. The Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Isa. 10.20. The remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord.

Isa. 19.20. It shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors. 22. The Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them.

Isa. 26.9. When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Isa. 27.9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin.

Isa. 48.10. I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Isa. 52.6. My people shall know my name : therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold it is I. v. 4,5.

Jer. 2.27. They have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save

us.

Jer. 9.7. Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Jer. 22.22. The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23. How gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail !

Lam. 3.27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 28. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. v. 29-33.

Eze. 14.10. They shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: 11. That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God."

Eze. 20.37. I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 43. There shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. Eze. 6.9.

Dan. 12.10. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. Dan. 11.35.

Hos. 2.6. Behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7. Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Hos. 5.15. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early.

Mic. 6.9. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

Zec. 13.9. 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.

Mal. 2.3. One shall take you away with it. 4. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi.

Mal. 3.3. He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Mar. 9.49. Every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Jno. 9.2. Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3. Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Jno. 11.4. This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

Jno. 15.2. Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Jno. 21.19. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God.

Act. 14.22. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Rom. 5.3. Tribulation worketh patience; 4. And patience, experience; and experience, hope.

Rom. 8.17. If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 28. All things work together for good to them that love God.

1 Cor. 11.32. We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

2 Cor. 1.6. Whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

2 Cor. 4.8. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12. So then death worketh in us. 16. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17. Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

2 Cor. 12.7. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

Phi. 1.12. The things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; 13. So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; 14, And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. 19. I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

2 The. 1.5. That ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer. Heb. 12.6. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Heb. 12.9. We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them rever

ence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10. But he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Heb. 12.11. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Jas. 1.2. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

1 Pet. 1.7. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

1 Pet. 4.14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Rev. 2.10. The devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. 3.19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.

AFFLICTION, ITS BENEFITS EXEMPLI FIED. Gen. 42.21. We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come

upon us.

Ex. 9.27. Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 28. Entreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. Ex. 10.7,16,17. Ex. 12.31-33.

Num. 21.7. The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.

Jud. 10.15. We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

1 Kin. 13.6. Entreat now the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.

1 Kin. 17.18. Art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? 2 Chr. 15.4. When they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

2 Chr. 33.12. When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13. And prayed unto him and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

Ezr. 9.13. After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God has punished us less than our iniquities deserve.

Neh. 9.33. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly.

Job 40.4. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

Psa. 66.10. Thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. 11. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. 12. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

Psa. 78.34. When he slew them, then they sought him and they returned and inquired early after God. 35. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

Psa. 105.18. Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19. Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

Psa. 119.67. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Isa. 26.16. Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Jer. 31.18. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

Jer. 31.19. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, Í smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Lam. 3.19. Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Hos. 6.1. Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Luk. 15.17. When he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee.

Act. 8.24. Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.

See JUDGMENTS, DESIGN OF-RESIGNATION. AFFLICTION, COMFORT IN. Gen. 21.17. Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad.

Ex. 3.7. I know their sorrows. v. 16. Deu. 33.27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Job 5.18. He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Job 11.16. Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. Job 35.10. God my maker, who giveth songs in the night.

Psa. 9.9. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Psa. 23.4. I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort

me.

Psa. 30.5. His anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psa. 31.7. Thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities.

Psa. 41.3. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Psa. 42.5. Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his counte

nance.

Psa. 55.22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psa. 69.33. The Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Psa. 94.19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

Psa. 103.13. As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 14. He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Psa. 112.4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.

Psa. 119.50. This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me. 52. I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself. 54. Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 92. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. 143. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me yet thy commandments are my delights.

Psa. 147.3. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Isa. 25.4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Isa. 27.8. He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

İsa. 30.19. Thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a

corner.

Isa. 40.1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished. 29. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Isa. 41.10. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 13. I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. 41.17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. Isa. 42.3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

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