Psalm 51:18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem. That means infinitely more than giving a lesson through the medium of speech. Our best teachers have sometimes been dumb. "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, for Thou didst it." What lessons we have learned from dumb beauty, from loving patience, from quiet, bright heroism, from the uncomplaining temper, from the abounding willingness, from a man's calm, strong grappling with stupendous difficulty I "Then shall I teach." He will teach, not by one way only, but by many. He will become a minister, an influence, a power of grace. Now, mark the ascent of the teaching. Related to Christi Instructed! Disciplined! A teacher! And of such a one it will be said by his fellow-men, "We know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these things that thou doest, except God be with him." (J. H. Jowett, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.WEB: Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. |
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