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Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
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God Knows Your Heart
Commentators emphasize that this verse is a profound source of comfort. Even when you can't form the right words and can only groan, God knows your deepest desires and hears every sigh. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon highlight that this divine awareness is not just a fact, but a 'sweet truth' that provides hope and encourages us to entrust our entire situation to Him, knowing we are fully understood.
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Psalms
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lord, all my desire is before thee - That is, You know all that I would ask or that I need. This is the expression of one who felt …
19th Century
Anglican
All my desire. —Notice the clutch at the thought of divine justice, as the clutch of a drowning man amid that sea of trouble.
Baptist
LORD, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
What a sweet, sweet truth that is! Happy is that man, who…
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16th Century
Protestant
O Lord! thou knowest all my desire. He adds this, not so much with respect to God, as to strengthen himself in the hope of obtaining some …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lord, all my desire [is] before you To be delivered from his afflictions, to have a discovery and application of par…
Nothing will trouble the heart of a good person as much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet is to keep ourselves in the lo…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the psalmist pleaded for divine help: judge, O Lord, those who wrong me (Psalms 34:1). He showe…
