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is not any left; I will go down to the grave mourning; Genesis 37:35     I have no comforter; Lamentations 1:21     all these things are against me. Genesis 42:36

3.

Are the consolations of God small with thee? Job 15:11     hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting GOd, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faintest not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. Isaiah 40:28     He knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. Psalm 103:14     God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation, also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:13

4.

Death is come up into your windows, he is entered into your house; Jeremiah 9:21     and you have now buried your dead out of your sight. You will go to him (her) he (she) shall not return to you. But the Lord liveth; Psalm 18:46     he is the same, and his years shall not fail; Hebrews 1:12     he remaineth for ever, his throne is from

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IV. MOURNERS

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generation to generation. - Lamentations 5:19     He is a refuge in the day of affliction; Jeremiah 16:19     the father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows; Psalm 68:5     he comforteth them that are cast down; 2 Corinthians 7:6     I, even I, saith the Lord, am he that comforteth thee. Isaiah 43:25

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The Lord reigneth! clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne; Psalm 97:1     his way is in the sea, his path in the great waters, and his footsteps are not known; Psalm 77:19     he giveth not account of any of his matters. Job 33:13     Behold he taketh away, and who shall hinder him? Who will say unto him, what dost thou? Job 9:12     Is it not lawful for him to do what he will with his own? Matthew 20:15

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Hear this and know it for thy good; Job 5:27     affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. Job 5:6     This is the Lord's doing. Psalm 118:23     In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10     He kills and he