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Psalms 116:7
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5 aGracious is the Lord, and brighteous;
Yes, our God is merciful. 
6 The Lord preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.
7 Return to your arest, O my soul,
For bthe Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 
8 aFor You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling. 
9 I will walk before the Lord
aIn the land of the living. 
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Psalms 116:7

Return unto thy rest, O my soul - Luther, "Be thou again joyful, O my soul." The meaning seems to be, "Return to thy former tranquility and calmness; thy former freedom from fear and anxiety." He had passed through a season of great danger. His soul had been agitated and terrified. That danger was now over, and he calls upon his soul to resume its former tranquility, calmness, peace, and freedom from alarm. The word does not refer to God considered as the "rest" of the soul, but to what the mind of the psalmist had been, and might now be again.

For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee - See the notes at Psalms 13:6.


 
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