Psalms 116:7
Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
BSB
ASV
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
KJV
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Turn, my soul, into your rest. When it is said, Turn into your rest, then he had a rest before, which he lost. For no one turns, except him who goes back to where he was before. For God created us good, and left us to our own free will, and placed us all with Adam in paradise. But because by our own free will we fell from that blessedness, and came into the valley of tears; for that reason the just man exhorts his soul, to turn back there whence it came down. Turn, my soul, into your rest.
1834–1892
You who have not be1ieved in our Lord Jesus Christ have no rest to which you can return, for you have never found any. May God grant to you the Grace to come to Christ that you may find rest unto your souls! But we who believe in Him do enter into rest. We are sometimes described as journeying through the wilderness towards Canaan, and the type is quite allowable, but still, it must not be pressed too far, for, in another sense, we have already entered into our rest.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.…
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And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that…
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Psalms 13:6I will sing to the LORD, for He has been good to me.
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Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.
I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.
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Psalms 119:17Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.
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I will sing to the LORD, for He has been good to me.