22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
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Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: …
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. …
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-27)We have here David’s solemn address to God, in answer to the gracious message he had now received from him. By faith he receives the promises, embraces them, and is persuaded of them, as the patriarchs, Heb. 11:13. How humbly does he here abase himself, and acknowledge his own unworthiness! How highly does he advance the name of God and admire his condescending grace and favour! With what devout a…
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