Behold, I have created the smith - The meaning of this verse is this: ‘Everything that can affect your welfare is under my control.…

Behold, I have created the smith ... —The words assert the same thought. The “axe,” the “hammer,” the “sword,” of the great ravagers of th…

Whoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake. Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire,

Behold, I have created the workmen. The Lord shows how easily and readily he delivers his Church from the base attacks of wicked men; for …

Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals
in the fire
Into which he put…

Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, consider that God is speaking comfortingly to them through these words, taking notice of their gr…

1. Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.

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