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For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
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God's All-Encompassing Work
Commentators explain that the "work" of God that brings gladness is comprehensive. It includes the majesty of creation, His providential care in history and our daily lives, the ultimate work of redemption through Jesus, and the personal work of grace in a believer's heart. All of God's actions are a source of joy.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For you, Lord, have made me glad—You have made me happy; you have given me such a state of feeling as finds an appropriate expressi…
19th Century
Anglican
The Vulgate rendering of this verse is quoted by Dante in a beautiful passage descriptive of the happiness which flows from delight in the beauty o…
Baptist
There is a blessed verse to come from the heart and mind of a happy man who is praising God, and who looks on all the works of the Lord, in creatio…
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16th Century
Protestant
Because you, Jehovah, have made me glad. The Psalmist repeats the truth that the Sabbath was not prescribed as a day of idleness, but a se…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you, Lord, have made me glad through your work Either of creation, which work is mentioned in the precept of the…
It is a privilege that we are admitted to praise the Lord, and hope to be accepted in the morning and every night; not only on Sabbath days, but ev…
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