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While you sleep among the campfires, The wings of a dove sheathed with silver, Her feathers with shining gold.
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A Challenging Promise
Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Ellicott note this is one of the most difficult verses in the Psalms to interpret with certainty. The exact historical meaning of lying "among the pots" or "sheepfolds" is debated. However, despite the obscurity, the verse's second half clearly points to a beautiful and glorious outcome.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Though ye have lain among the pots - There are few passages in the Bible more difficult of interpretation than this verse and the f…
19th Century
Anglican
The agreement of the ancient versions in rendering these difficult verses shows that their obscurity does not arise, as in the case of so many pass…
Baptist
Yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
There are good times ahead for God's…
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16th Century
Protestant
Though you should lie among the pots. Having spoken of God as fighting the battles of His people, the psalmist adds, by way of qualificati…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Though you have lain among the pots
Kimchi takes these words to be the words of the women, or of the psalmist addr…
Fresh mercies should remind us of former mercies. If God brings His people into a wilderness, He will be sure to go before them in it and to bring …
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