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Yahweh will command his lovingkindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.
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A 'Yet' of Confident Hope
Commentators emphasize the word "Yet" as a powerful declaration of faith. Despite overwhelming sorrow, the psalmist expresses a confident expectation, not just a wish, that God will command His lovingkindness. This future hope is what allows him to have a song and a prayer even in the "night" of his present suffering, looking beyond his circumstances to God's certain deliverance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in the daytime - literally, By day the Lord will command his mercy; that is,…
19th Century
Anglican
Yet the Lord. —Better, By day Jehovah shall command (or, literally, Jehovah command) his grace.
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Baptist
Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.…
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16th Century
Protestant
Jehovah will command his loving-kindness by day. The verb used here is in the future tense, but I do not deny that, according to the Hebre…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Yet] the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime Which is a tender affec…
The way to forget our miseries is to remember the God of our mercies. David saw troubles coming from God's wrath, and that discouraged him. But if …
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13th Century
Catholic
This is the fifth group of ten in the first fifty psalms; it is ordered to implore help against present evils.
This is done throug…
