OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 16:7

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I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

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Verse 7. Mercies. We become accustomed to the ordinary effects of grace, which are always admirable; and we are astonished only at miraculous conversions and occurrences. Orig.—Some such manifestation of the divine power seemed now requisite, to deliver David from such a powerful rival as Saul. Calmet.—Syr. “Lord, make thy holy one appear as a prodigy, as the Saviour of those who hope in thee.” Saint Jerome—“O thou Saviour of those who hope.” Bible.

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