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| To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. |
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| 1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? |
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| 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? |
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| 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; |
The sleep of death – A condition of peaceful unconsciousness. HG726:4
Dr. Trench says of this word sleep, "The reality of death is not denied, but only the fact implicitly assumed that death will be followed by a resurrection, as sleep is followed by an awakening." R2617:5
Heaven is not a sleeping place, but a place of joyful activity and life. Neither could we imagine mankind as sleeping in a Catholic purgatory or a Protestant hell. R5060:1
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| 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. |
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| 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. |
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| 6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. |
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