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A River Of Peace And Waves Of Righteousness >
I. THE Wonderful Thought of God here.
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This is an exclamation of disappointment; of thwarted love. The good which He purposed has been missed by man's fault, and He regards the faulty Israel with sorrow and pity as a would-be benefactor balked of a kind intention might do. O Jerusalem! how often would I have gathered thee.' If thou hadst known.., the things that belong unto thy peace!'
