Psalms 79:13

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

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WEBBE

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

BSB

Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

KJV

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

ASV

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give thee thanks for ever: We will show forth thy praise to all generations.

BBE

So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

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וַאֲנַחְנוּ va·'a·nach·nu and we H587 עַמְּךָ 'a·me·kha people your H5971 וְצֹאן ve·tzon and [the] sheep of H6629 מַרְעִיתֶךָ mar·'i·te·kha pasture your H4830 נוֹדֶה no·deh we will give thanks H3034 לְּךָ le·kha to you H9031 לְעוֹלָם le·'o·lam for ever H5769 לְדֹר le·dor to a generation H1755 וָדֹר va·dor and a generation H1755 נְסַפֵּר ne·sa·per we will recount H5608 תְּהִלָּתֶךָ te·hi·la·te·kha praise your H8416

The early church

"Render," he says, "to our neighbours seven times so much into their bosoms" [Psalm 79:13]. Not any evil things he is wishing, but things just he is foretelling and prophesying as to come. But in the number seven, that is, in sevenfold retribution, he would have the completeness of the punishment to be perceived, for with this number fullness is wont to be signified. Whence also there is this saying for the good, "He shall receive in this world seven times as much:" which has been put for all. "As if having nothing, and possessing all things." [2 Corinthians 6:10] Of neighbours he is speaking, because among them dwells the Church even unto the day of severing: for not now is made the corporal separation. "Into their bosoms," he says, as being now in secret, so that the vengeance which is now being executed in secret in this life, hereafter may be known among the nations before our eyes. For when a man is given over to a reprobate mind, in his inward bosom he is receiving what he deserves of future punishments. "Their reproach wherewith they have reproached You, O Lord." This do You render to them sevenfold into their bosoms, that is, in return for this reproach, most fully do You rebuke them in their secret places. For in this they have reproached Your Name, thinking to efface You from the earth in Your servants.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 6–13

Those who persist in ignorance of God, and neglect of prayer, are the ungodly. How unrighteous soever men were, the Lord was righteous in permitting them to do what they did. Deliverances from trouble are mercies indeed, when grounded upon the pardon of sin; we should therefore be more earnest in prayer for the removal of our sins than for the removal of afflictions. They had no hopes but from God's mercies, his tender mercies. They plead no merit, they pretend to none, but, Help us for the glory of thy name; pardon us for thy name's sake. The Christian forgets not that he is often bound in the chain of his sins. The world to him is a prison; sentence of death is passed upon him, and he knows not how soon it may be executed. How fervently should he at all times pray, O let the sighing of a prisoner come before thee, according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die! How glorious will the day be, when, triumphant over sin and sorrow, the church beholds the adversary disarmed for ever! while that church shall, from age to age, sing the praises of her great Shepherd and Bishop, her King and her God.

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Spurgeon · Verse 13

"So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks far ever; we will shew forth thy praise to all generations." The gratitude of the church is lasting as well as deep. On her tablets are memorials of great deliverances, and, as long as she shall exist, her sons will rehearse them with delight. We have a history which will survive all other records, and it is bright in every line with the glory of the Lord. From the direst calamities God's glory springs, and the dark days of his people become the prelude to unusual displays of the Lord's love and power.

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