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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
12:5-6 The Reliable Promises of God Are Refreshing. In such a climate of insincerity (cf. vv. 3-4), God's promises give hope.
12:5 The poor and needy are familiar groups whom the true Israelites will not oppress but care for (as in Deut. 15:11; 24:14); to oppress them arouses God to action (as in Ps. 9:18).
12:6 To say that God's words are pure, refined, and purified is to insist that they have no "dross" of lies, flattery, or insincerity: God means what he says; his words are completely pure. This general truth gives bite to his specific promise of v. 7 (cf. Prov. 30:5).
