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All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
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Praise from Your Core
Commentators explain that the phrase "all my bones shall say" is a powerful metaphor for whole-bodied praise. It describes a deep, physical response from the very core of one's being after deliverance from crushing circumstances. It means to glorify God with every fiber of your being and all your strength.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
All my bones shall say - A similar expression occurs in (Psalms 51:8): That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
19th Century
Anglican
All my bones. —As we say, “all the fibres of my body” (Psalms 34:20).
The poor ... the poor. —B…
16th Century
Protestant
O Jehovah! who is like thee? Here he explains more fully the nature of his joy in the salvation of God of which he had spoken, showing tha…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All my bones shall say So, in a figurative sense, vexation and disquietude are ascribed to the bones, ([Reference Ps…
It is nothing new for the most righteous people, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed …
13th Century
Catholic
1. In the preceding psalms, the dignity of the just was made manifest; now help is implored against the persecutions of the wicked.
He…
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