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Oh continue your lovingkindness to those who know you, Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
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A Prayer for Ongoing Grace
Commentators explain that the prayer to 'continue' God's loving-kindness uses a Hebrew word meaning to 'draw out' or 'prolong.' This is not a plea for God to begin loving His people, but for the manifestation of His love to be constant, uninterrupted, and ever-deepening in their lives.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
O continue - Margin, as in Hebrew: “draw out at length.” The Hebrew word means “to draw;” hence, “to draw out,” in the sense of “continuing”…
16th Century
Protestant
Prolong thy mercy to them that know thee. David now sets himself to pray. And first, he asks in general that God would continue his mercy …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O continue your lovingkindness to them that know you That is, spiritually and experimentally; and such are they that…
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