Are the comforts of God small with you, and a word dealing gently with you?
But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the Spirit of Jehovah go from me to speak to you?
What you know, I know also; I do not fall short of you.
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.
And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.
And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.
I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit fainted. Selah.
But He who comforts the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus.