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166LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
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I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 166)Here is the whole duty of man; for we are taught, 1. To keep our eye upon God’s favour as our end: “ Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation , not only temporal but eternal salvation. I have hoped for that as my happiness and laid up my treasure in it; I have hoped for it as thine, as a happiness of thy preparing, thy promising, and which consists in being with thee. Hope of this has raised me above…
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