Psalms 66:9
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He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
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This is a thanksgiving-psalm, and it is of such a general use and application that we need not suppose it penned upon any particular occasion. All people are here called upon to praise God, I. For the general instances of his sovereign dominion and power in the whole creation (Psa 66:1-7). II. For the special tokens of his favour to the church, his peculiar people (Psa 66:8-12). And then, III. The psalmist praises God for his own experiences of his goodness to him in particular, especially in answering his prayers (Psa 66:13-20). If we have learned in every thing to give thanks for ancient and modern mercies, public and personal mercies, we shall know how to sing this psalm with grace and understanding. To the chief musician. A song or psalm.
Open source ↗66:9 God guides his people into wisdom and away from folly (17:5; 37:31; 121:3).
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He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.