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For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
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God's Pity is Based on Knowledge
Commentators unanimously agree that God's pity is not random but is rooted in His intimate knowledge of our nature. As our Creator, He knows our 'frame'—that we are physically fragile like 'dust' or 'earthen vessels' and spiritually weak. This deep understanding of our limitations is the very reason He deals with us mercifully, patiently, and compassionately.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For he knows our frame - Our formation; of what we are made; how we are made. That is, he knows that we are made of dust; that we are frail;…
19th Century
Anglican
Frame. —Rather, fashioning; referring to Genesis 2:7, or possibly to the image so common in the prophecy of the potter’s …
Baptist
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Our bodies are merely animated dust, and even our souls might be compared…
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16th Century
Protestant
For he knoweth—David here annihilates all the worth that men would arrogate to themselves, and asserts that it is the consideration of our…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For he knows our frame The outward frame of their bodies, what brittle ware, what earthen vessels, they are; he bein…
Truly God is good to all: He is in a special way good to Israel. He has revealed Himself and His grace to them. By His ways we may understand His p…
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