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Please let your lovingkindness be for my comfort, According to your word to your servant.
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Comfort from Mercy, Not Merit
Commentators agree that the psalmist seeks comfort not from his own merit but solely from God's "merciful kindness." Albert Barnes emphasizes that all true consolation is derived from God's unearned favor. In times of affliction, our comfort is not found in what we have done, but in who God is and His gracious character.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort - Margin, as in Hebrew, “to comfort me.” The word rendered merciful-kindn…
19th Century
Baptist
Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
"Lord," he seems to say, "I have…
16th Century
Protestant
I beseech You, let Your goodness be for my consolation. Although he has acknowledged that he had been justly humbled, yet he desires that …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort , &c.] Shown in the provision and promise of a Saviour; in…
God made us to serve him and enjoy him; but by sin, we have made ourselves unfit to serve him and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to…
