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They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
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God's Permanence vs. Creation
Commentators highlight the stark contrast in this verse. While the heavens and earth seem permanent, the psalmist compares them to a garment that wears out and is eventually replaced. In absolute contrast, God is eternal and unchanging. This establishes God's supreme, enduring nature over all of creation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Long ago - See this passage fully explained in the notes at Hebrews 1:10-12. In the beginning; at the first. The phrase used here means lite…
19th Century
Anglican
Perish. —Compared with man, the victim of incessant change and visible decay, the fixed earth and the uplifted mountains are often…
Baptist
I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations. Of old you have laid the foundations …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They shall perish Both the heavens and the earth, though so well founded, and so firmly made; they shall be dissolved, me…
Bodily illnesses soon weaken our strength, then what can we expect but that our months should be cut short; and what should we do but prepare accor…
