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Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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God as Your Inheritance
Commentators explain that calling God "my portion" recalls the Old Testament priests who received God Himself as their inheritance instead of land. This means our ultimate treasure isn't earthly possessions, which perish, but our relationship with God, which is an eternal, secure, and all-sufficient inheritance that cannot be lost or stolen.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Lord is my portion - “ My portion is Yahweh,” see Numbers 18:20; Psalms 16:5 and following.
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19th Century
Anglican
The Lord. —An inversion of the sentence gives a closer and more emphatic rendering: My portion is Jehovah. The phrase is …
Baptist
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet implies in this verse that we cannot stand firm in adversities unless we are content with God alone and his favor. For as soon as we de…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord [is] my portion, says my soul The prophet, or the church, whom he represents, rises and increases in the exercis…
Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that th…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here he sets forth the experience of divine mercy in the present.
First is the recognition of this: the mercies of the Lord,…
