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| 1 To the Overseer. A Psalm of David. |
In time of trouble – Rendered "evil" in "I create evil." (Isa. 45:7) A125
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| O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him. |
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| 2 Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies. |
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| 3 Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness. |
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| 4 I I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,' |
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| 5 Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth his name hath perished! |
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| 6 And if he came to see vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out at the street he speaketh. |
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| 7 All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me: |
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| 8 A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again. |
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| 9 Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me, |
Own familiar friend – Judas. R3760:2
Eat of my bread – One who partook of the same supper, common hospitality. R4906:6
Trials from "brethren," some of whom were only weak, and one false at heart, must have been the sorest among our Lord's experiences. R3820:3
Lifted up his heel – The Lord quoted this prophecy, but it did not move Judas to change his course. R4906:6
A radical change from an attitude of love and friendship to an attitude of bitterness and enmity is not an instantaneous, but a gradual, work. R4234:4
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| 10 And Thou, Jehovah, favour me, And cause me to rise, And I give recompence to them. |
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| 11 By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me. |
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| 12 As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age. |
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| 13 Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age and unto the age. Amen and Amen. |
From everlasting – From all eternity, without any beginning. E86
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