12LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)The prophet in these verses looks back upon what God had done with them, both in mercy and judgment, and sings unto God of both, and then looks forward upon what he hoped God would do for them. Observe, I. His reviews and reflections are mixed. When he looks back upon the state of the church he finds, 1. That God had in many instances been very gracious to them and had done great things for them.…
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