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Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
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God as the Tender Shepherd
Commentators explain that the prayer "Be their shepherd" and "bear them up" uses rich shepherd imagery. It's a plea for God to not only feed and nourish His people spiritually but also to carry the weak and struggling, just as a shepherd carries a lamb. This reveals a God of tender, personal, and supportive care for His people in all circumstances.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Save your people - All your people. The psalm appropriately closes with a prayer for all the people of God. The prayer is offered i…
19th Century
Anglican
Feed ... lift them up. —These words suggest comparison with Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 63:9. The incorporation of this petiti…
16th Century
Protestant
In this verse he shows that his concern was not so much for his own welfare as for the welfare of the whole Church, and that he neither lived nor r…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Save your people The psalmist begins the psalm with petitions for himself, and closes it with prayers for the people…
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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