For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
For in thee, O Lord, do I hope expresses hope in the Lord and confidence that he will hear the speaker's prayer. It is trust that God will hear the one who calls on him and calls to him. As part of the Psalms it belongs to inspired expressions of prayer and praise that teach people to commune with God. As one of the songs it teaches trust and confidence in God and offers help in every condition of life. It belongs to a collection that speaks to human need and points to God as able and willing to save, often moving from a sense of need to confidence in God.
The prayer waits on God with hope and confidence that he will hear. This hope rests on God's promise and leads the soul to expect an answer and watch for it. The thirty-eighth Psalm shows that conscience was active under the old dispensation, evidencing that people then possessed this inward moral power even though the word conscience does not occur in the Old Testament. The psalm gives a glimpse of Christ's experience. It is one of the prophetic word pictures that reveals Christ's inner experience in his struggles with the enemy and his suffering under temptation.
This hope in the Lord and trust that he will hear brings blessing to the one who employs all time profitably. It blesses the one who is silent on subjects that do not concern him. It carries him through this tumultuous world as one that is dumb and hears not for the Lord's sake.
For in thee, O Lord, do I hope expresses hope in the Lord and confidence that he will hear the speaker's prayer. It is trust that God will hear the one who calls on him and calls to him. As part of the Psalms it belongs to inspired expressions of prayer and praise that teach people to commune with God. As one of the songs it teaches trust and confidence in God and offers help in every condition of life. It belongs to a collection that speaks to human need and points to God as able and willing to save, often moving from a sense of need to confidence in God.
The prayer waits on God with hope and confidence that he will hear. This hope rests on God's promise and leads the soul to expect an answer and watch for it. The thirty-eighth Psalm shows that conscience was active under the old dispensation, evidencing that people then possessed this inward moral power even though the word conscience does not occur in the Old Testament. The psalm gives a glimpse of Christ's experience. It is one of the prophetic word pictures that reveals Christ's inner experience in his struggles with the enemy and his suffering under temptation.
This hope in the Lord and trust that he will hear brings blessing to the one who employs all time profitably. It blesses the one who is silent on subjects that do not concern him. It carries him through this tumultuous world as one that is dumb and hears not for the Lord's sake.