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You will keep them, Yahweh, You will preserve them from this generation forever.
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A Promise for God's People
Commentators agree that the pronoun 'them' refers to God's vulnerable people—the 'poor and needy' mentioned earlier in the psalm—not to God's words. The verse is a direct promise that God will guard and defend His faithful followers from the oppressive and corrupt forces in the world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
“You shall keep them.” That is, the persons referred to in Psalms 12:5—the poor and the needy who were suffering from the wrongs inflicted…
19th Century
Baptist
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall prese…
16th Century
Protestant
Thou, O Jehovah. Some think that the language of the Psalmist here is that of renewed prayer. They, therefore, understand the words as exp…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall keep them, O Lord Not the words before mentioned, as Aben Ezra explains it, for the affix is masculine and not femin…
This psalm furnishes good thoughts for bad times; one may comfort oneself with such meditations and prayers. Let us see what makes the times bad, a…
