Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 34:10

10. The young lyons do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing .

Either, 1. Properly, See Iob 4. 11. Or, 2. Metaphorically so called, the great Potentates of the Earth, who are oft so called, as Ier. 2. 15. Ezek. 38. 13. Nah. 2. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].

Which is necessary and truly good for them, all Circumstances Considered: of which God alone is a competent Judge: And therefore although God doth usually take a special Care, to supply the wants of good Men, and hath oft done it, by extraordinary ways, when ordinary have failed, yet sometimes he knows, and it is certainly true, that Wants and Crosses are more needful, and useful to them than Bread, and in such Cases it is a greater mercy of God, to deny them supplies, than to grant them.

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