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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

What he says is literally “Gone is my enduring and my hope from the LORD.” “Enduring” and “hope” are two connected nouns which have essentially one meaning. Glory (RSV) is one meaning of the first noun, but in this context the sense is the capacity to endure, survive, go on living. The poet is thinking here of the possibility of a long life. His hope for the future, which is based on the LORD, appears to be lost. TEV expresses the thought well: “I do not have much longer to live.” Expectation is
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