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Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
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From 'My' Strength to 'Our' Strength
Commentators note that the psalmist moves from his personal experience of God's help to a universal truth. The phrase "their strength" refers to all of God's people. This teaches that God's power is not just for a specific individual like King David, but is a communal resource available to the entire family of faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Lord is their strength - Margin, “his strength.” The Hebrew is, “their strength,” or “strength to them.” The allusion is to the people o…
19th Century
Anglican
Their strength — that is, the strength of His people, who are throughout in the poet’s thought, even if it is the individual and n…
16th Century
Protestant
Jehovah is their strength. By way of explanation, he repeats what he had said before: that God had been his strength, namely, because He h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord [is] their strength The strength of his people, mentioned in (Psalms 28:9); not only the streng…
Has God heard our supplications? Let us then bless His name. The Lord is my strength, to support me and sustain me through all my services…
13th Century
Catholic
1. In the previous psalm, the psalmist showed the trust he had in God; now he adds a psalm of prayer so that he might not fail in that trust…
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