Psalm 16:7 — make your mercies wonderful; keep me as the pupil of the eye
“Make wonderful your mercies, you who save those who hope on you; from those who have stood against your right hand, keep me as the pupil of the eye” (Psalm 16:7).
Just as Job calls the power that struck him the hand of God: “Your hand,” he says, “let it not whirl me so much.” And David calls the enemies of the beneficent hand of God the sword of God. And the beneficent hand of God is the angels, through whom the perceptible world is provided for, to whom demons are opposed, the angels wishing all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4).
Greek
16.7 Θαυμάστωσον τὰ ἐλέη σου, ὁ σώ ζων τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπὶ σέ· ἐκ τῶν ἀνθεσ τηκότων τῇ δεξιᾷ σου φύλαξόν με, ὡς κό ρην ὀφθαλμοῦ. Ωσπερ τὴν πλήξασαν αὐτὸν δύναμιν, ὁ ̓Ιὼβ χεῖρα λέγει Θεοῦ· ̔Η χείρ ἐστί σου, φησὶν, μή με στροβῇ τοσούτως. Καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς τῆς εὐεργετικῆς χειρὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ καλεῖ ὁ ∆αυὶδ ῥομφαίαν Θεοῦ. Χεὶρ δὲ εὐερ γετικὴ Θεοῦ οἱ α γγελοί εἰσιν, δι' ω ν προ νοεῖται κόσμου τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ, οι ς ἀντίκειν ται δαίμονες, βουλομένοις πάντας ἀνθρώπους σωθῆναι, καὶ εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν.
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New English from locked PG 12 / Khazarzar Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3. Earlier lemma-led SERIES-CLOSEOUT English was discarded.
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