Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not. When poor men make requests to us we usually answer them as the echo does the voice; the answer cuts off half the petition. We shall seldom find among men Jael's courtesy, giving milk to those that ask water, except it be, as this was, an entangling benefit, the better to introduce a mischief. There are not many Naamans among us, that, when you beg of them one talent, will force you to take two; but God's answer to our prayers is like a multiplying glass, which renders the request much greater in the answer than it was in the prayer. (J. Reynolds.) Parallel Verses KJV: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. |
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