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Psalms 13:5-6

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

But I have trusted in thy mercy [ checed (H2617 )]; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. David's 'rejoicing' in the Lord's salvation, which he anticipates by faith, stands in contrast to the enemy's rejoicing in his anticipated fall.

Because he hath dealt bountifully with me - the Hebrew х gaamal (H1580)] commonly means to requite; here, to deal bountifully with him, making up for his former adversity, as in Psalms 119:17; Psalms 142:7; Zechariah 9:12; Isaiah 40:2. The Septuagint, Vulgate, the Ethiopic versions, and 'the Great English Bible,' (so the Book of Common Prayer), add, 'Yea, I will praise the name of the Lord Most Highest.' The addition is not in the Hebrew, and is probably taken from Psalms 7:1, end.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 13:5. _BUT I HAVE TRUSTED IN THY MERCY_] Thou wilt not suffer me to fall; or if I have fallen, wilt thou not, for his sake who died for sinners, once more lift up the light of thy counten...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TRUSTED. confided. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The joy of deliverance....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 13:6a]_ וַ אֲנִ֤י ׀ בְּ חַסְדְּךָ֣ בָטַחְתִּי֮...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Neither their threats and brags, nor my own dangers, shall shake my confidence in thy mercy promised to me....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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