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For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
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God's Sovereign Delight
Commentators emphasize that God's pleasure in His people is not based on their performance but on His sovereign, free choice. Scholars like Calvin and Gill explain this is a "love of complacency and delight" for those He has chosen in Christ. This truth is meant to be a profound source of joy, security, and reciprocal delight in God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people — Let them rejoice on this account. He loves them; he approves their conduct; he bestows his fa…
19th Century
Anglican
He will beautify the meek ... —Rather, He adorns the oppressed with salvation. Not only is the victory which ach…
Baptist
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people:
Then, should not they take pleasure in Him? If He looks upon them with divine delight, sh…
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16th Century
Protestant
For God hath taken pleasure in his people. We have spoken elsewhere of the verb רצה (ratsah); here it means free favor, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people Not all mankind; though they are all his people by creation, and are unde…
New mercies continually demand new songs of praise, on earth and in heaven. And the children of Zion have not only to bless the God who made them, …
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