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In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
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The Reality of Inner Chaos
Commentators explain that the 'multitude of thoughts' describes a common experience of inner chaos. This can feel like a disorderly mob of anxious, perplexing, despairing, and even sinful thoughts. The psalm normalizes this internal struggle, acknowledging that our minds can be a tangled and overwhelming place.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul – The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “In the…
19th Century
Anglican
Thoughts. —Properly, dividing— i.e., “perplexing” or “anxious” thoughts. (Job 20:2.) Septuagint and Vulgate, …
Baptist
Thy comforts delight my soul.
"Comforts which you do bring me, comforts which arise from thoughts of you, the comforts of the Comfo…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In the multitude of my thoughts within me
The word for thoughts is used of branches of trees, thick and entwined, …
That person is blessed, who, under the chastening of the Lord, is taught His will and His truths from His holy word and by the Holy Spirit. They sh…
