Now, Reader, having given to our glorious Head the honour due unto his holy name, in having beheld him as the individual Person spoken to, in the promises before; we shall now be the better prepared, through grace, to enter into the proper enjoyment of these sweet promises which here follow, and which, if we are Christ's, are all our own: 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Galatians 3:29. And here again remark, that as all the former promises were made to one certain person, even to the worm Jacob; so here they are all made to many, even to all who are poor and needy, who seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst. Mark, I pray you, the striking difference in the persons spoken to; and, I think under divine teaching, it will be impossible but to see Christ in the one, and his people in the other. And do not overlook the Father's love in all, and the many, many blessed things here promised, which, when spiritually interpreted, are most full and blessed indeed. For what are the rivers here spoken of, but rivers of grace? And what is the wilderness, but the barren, dry, and lifeless state of our poor fallen nature? And oh, how truly blessed is it, when we see Jehovah's hand in all, and acknowledge him all! Ephesians 1:3.
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Isaiah 41:17-20
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.