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Psalms 55:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord (Jehovah) shall save me. The call is upon the God known to man by nature as the Almighty Ruler of the universe; the answer is from the covenant God of Israel, the Self-existent One, in whom Israel trusts.

The two are different aspects of one and the same Being.

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