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It is time to act, Yahweh, For they break your law.
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A Prayer for Divine Intervention
Commentators agree this verse is a plea for God to intervene. When society disregards or attacks God's law, it is the appropriate time for believers to cry out for God to act. As John Calvin notes, this is not a prayer for personal revenge but a zealous appeal for God to vindicate His own honor, restrain evil, and restore divine order.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
It is time for you, Lord, to work - literally, “Time to do for Yahweh;” and the construction might be either that it is time to do …
19th Century
Anglican
They have made void thy law. — Some treat the verse as parenthetical, but is it not that the irreligion …
Baptist
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
When men begin to exercise a destructive criticism upon the Wor…
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16th Century
Protestant
It is time for thee, O Jehovah! to be doing. Since the Prophet's object is to call down upon the impious and wicked the vengeance they hav…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[It is] time for [thee], Lord, to work To send the Messiah, to work righteousness; to fulfil the law, and vindicate …
Happy is the man who, acting on gospel principles, does justice to all around. Christ our Surety, having paid our debt and ransom, secures all the …
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