16. Hear me, O God. It is to the covenant God,
the ever-living Jehovah, that he appeals with strong cryings. For thy lovingkindness is good. By the greatness of thy love have pity upon thine
afflicted. It is always a stay to the soul to dwell upon the preeminence and
excellence of the Lord’s mercy. The word lovingkindness is composed of
two most sweet and fragrant things, fitted to inspire strength into the
fainting, and make desolate hearts sing for joy. Turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. If the Lord do but turn the eye of
pity, and the hand of power, the mourner’s spirit revives. It is the gall of
bitterness to be without the comfortable smile of God; in our Lord’s case his
grief culminated in his bitterest cry in which he mourned an absent God.
Observe how he dwells anew upon divine tenderness.
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