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For this, let everyone that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
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Your Story Encourages Others
Commentators like Albert Barnes and John Calvin explain that the psalmist's personal experience of forgiveness is meant to be a public encouragement. When one person confesses their sin and finds God's mercy, it serves as a powerful example and invitation for all other 'godly' people—those who desire a relationship with God—to do the same.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For this — With reference to this state of mind, or to this happy result; or, encouraged by my example and my success. The idea seems to be …
19th Century
Anglican
For this: that is, for this cause.
Shall every one. A better rendering is let every one.
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Baptist
For this shall everyone that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nea…
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16th Century
Protestant
Therefore shall every one that is meek pray unto thee. Here the Psalmist expressly states that whatever he has until now described concern…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For this shall everyone that is godly pray to you Meaning either that the success he had met with, in acknowledging …
It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and on…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here begins the fourth set of ten psalms from the first fifty.
Just as the first ten contained psalms about the persecution by Absa…
