Are the comforts of God too little with you, or a word that deals gently with you?
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Where did the Spirit of Jehovah pass over from me to speak with you?
As you know, I know, even I; not falling short of you.
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
and I have not departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
He delivers the afflicted one by his affliction, and He opens their ears by oppression.
And also He allured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped under it; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.
And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.
I remember God and am troubled; I meditate and my spirit faints. Selah.
But the One comforting the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus.