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Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, For as many years as we have seen evil.
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A Plea for Proportional Joy
Commentators unanimously see this as a plea for God to grant joy in proportion to past suffering. It's a request for restoration, asking that the measure of future gladness would correspond to the measure of past affliction. As one scholar puts it, the prayer is to 'balance our sorrows with an equal weight of joys.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us - Let the one correspond with the other. Let our occasions of joy…
19th Century
Anglican
A prayer that prosperity may follow, proportionate to the mercy that has been endured.
Baptist
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Give us measure for meas…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us The days of afflicti…
Those who wish to learn true wisdom must pray for divine instruction. They must also beg to be taught by the Holy Spirit, and seek comfort and joy …
