OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 17:7

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Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

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Verse 7. Called. All these words are in the future, 2 Kennicott. and Hebrew Bible.—But as they relate to an event that was past, they seem to be as well expressed here as they are in Duport’s Greek Psalms. Bert.—Both are true; as David had prayed, and would continue to pray, for God’s protection; otherwise he would have deserved to lose it. We must always pray, and never faint. Bible.—Temple, “from my heart;” (Saint Augustine) from the tabernacle at Gabaaon, (Lyran) or from heaven. Chal. Euseb. Calmet.—Earnest prayer is the best remedy against temptations and affliction. God will not fail to hear those who are sincere, as he did the prophet. Worthington.

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