Speak peace; mercy and truth have met.
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| 1 ¶ <<To the chief
Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> LORD, thou hast been favourable
unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. |
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- Brought back captivity of Jacob Jacob (renamed Israel)
took his family to Egypt where they became slaves.
2 - Forgiven Made possible by faith in the Lamb who would be slain at Calvary. |
| 4 Turn us, O God of
our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. |
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| 8 ¶ I will hear what
God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to
his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. |
8 - Speak peace mt1128. |
| 10 Mercy
and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. |
10 - Mercy and truth Attributes that filled Christ while on earth. They were joined in Him. |
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