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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 102:14

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

Ver. 14. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones] They pity her, and wish her welfare; much more then dost thou. He argueth from that sweet, tender, melting frame of spirit that was found in the faithful, which is but a reflex of that far sweeter that is in God.

And favour the dust thereof] The ruins and the rubbish, heartily desiring and expecting a re-edification and restoration, whereof they had a sweet promise, Amos 9:9, and for the spiritual temple to be built of Jews and Gentiles, they had many more. See all that followeth.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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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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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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