Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
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Gill's Exposition
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,.... The days of affliction are times of sorrow; and days of prosperity make glad and joyful; and the psalmist here seems to desire an…
Barnes' Notes
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us - Let the one correspond with the other. Let our occasions of joy be measured by the sorrows which have come upon us. As our…
These are the petitions of this prayer, grounded upon the foregoing meditations and acknowledgments. Is any afflicted? Let him learn thus to pray. Four things they are here directed to pray for: -
I.…
Cambridge Bible
Make us glad according to the days&c. Let the joy of restoration to Thy favour be proportioned to the depth of our humiliation. Cp. Isa 61:7. The form of the word for -days" (y'môth) occurs elsewhere…
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