Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

time long. [130:7a] Yes, whoever can believe thus will appropriately be called “Israel,” one who overcomes God [cf. Gen 32:28], because he took God at His word: therefore he may hope and will not be put to shame before his enemies. [130:7b] For with the Lord alone is grace and many and varied ways to redemption in many difficult and secret afflictions, beyond all human knowledge and understanding. [130:8] And He will redeem Israel (the seed of Abraham), the guilty, afflicted, distressed, believing sinner, from all his sins, which are a cause, foundation, and power of all afflictions. Amen.