Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou shall keep them, O Lord,.... Not the words before mentioned, as Aben Ezra explains it, for the affix is masculine and not feminine; not but God has wonderfully kept and preserved the sacred…
Barnes' Notes
“Thou shalt keep them That is, the persons referred to in Psa 12:5 - the poor and the needy who were suffering from the wrongs inflicted on them. The idea is, that God would guard and defend them.…
This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amo 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves…
Concluding expression of confidence in Jehovah's protection, which is sorely needed when wickedness prevails unchecked.
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