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Show your marvelous lovingkindness, You who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
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Ask for 'Marvelous' Mercy
Commentators explain that David isn't asking for ordinary, everyday grace. The Hebrew for 'show' can mean 'to separate' or 'make distinct.' Facing extreme danger, David prays for a special, miraculous intervention set apart from common mercies. This teaches that in our deepest crises, it is right to ask God for a level of help that specifically matches the severity of our situation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Show thy marvelous loving-kindness — The literal translation of the original here would be, “distinguish your favors.” The Hebrew w…
19th Century
Anglican
Show. —Literally, Separate; but (), from its use to express God’s providential care of Israel in distinction to other nat…
Baptist
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowi…
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16th Century
Protestant
Make marvelous your mercies. As the word הפלה, haphleh, signifies sometimes to make wonderful, or remarkable, a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Show your marvellous loving kindness Such is the lovingkindness of God to his people in Christ; which is sovereign, …
This psalm is a prayer. Insincere prayers are fruitless; but if our hearts lead our prayers, God will meet them with His favor. The psalmist was ac…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Above, the psalmist described the divine justice and showed that he kept it; here he puts forward a prayer in which he asks to be heard f…
