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Psalms 25:21

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 25:21

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me. Scarcely his own inherent integrity and uprightness, the want of which he has deplored when confessing that his iniquity is great (). Rather an integrity and uprightness whereto he hopes to attain, by the grace of God, in days to come—an integrity and uprightness for which he "waits" For I wait on thee.

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