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135Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
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The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: …
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 135)David here, as often as elsewhere, writes himself God’s servant, a title he gloried in, though he was a king; now here, as became a good servant, 1. He is very ambitious of his Master’s favour, accounting that his happiness and chief good. He asks not for corn and wine, for silver and gold, but, “ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant ; let me be accepted of thee, and let me know that I am so. C…
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