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Has his lovingkindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
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Even Saints Ask Hard Questions
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon find great comfort in the fact that an inspired psalmist voiced such desperate questions. It shows that feeling abandoned and questioning God's goodness is a trial even faithful believers can face. Seeing the 'footprints of another man in the mire,' as Spurgeon puts it, assures us that we are not alone in our struggles and can also find a way through.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? The word rendered “clean gone” means to fail, to fail utterly. The idea is, can it be that the compassio…
19th Century
Anglican
The self-questionings here follow as they rise sigh after sigh in the poet’s heart. God’s silences have always been more appalling to the human spi…
Baptist
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Does his promise fall for evermore? Has G…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Is his mercy clean gone forever ? &c.] Or "his grace" F17 ; and mercy is no other than grace to objects i…
Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek Him until we find Him. In the day of his trouble, th…