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Psalm 136:23
who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness endures forever;
21and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loving kindness endures forever;
23who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness endures forever;
24and has delivered us from our adversaries, for his loving kindness endures forever;
25who gives food to every creature, for his loving kindness endures forever.
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“Remembered” names God's attention to his people in their low estate, where weakness becomes part of the account of his enduring loving kindness.
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Genesis 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.God's remembrance links these texts: he remembered Noah and the creatures in the ship, and remembered his people in their low estate.
Psalm 115:12The LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.Both psalms speak of God remembering his people, linking that remembrance with his kindness or blessing.
Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried …God's love reaches his people in distress: Psalm 136 recalls their low estate, and Isaiah recounts his pity in their affliction.
Luke 1:48for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.The low estate of God's people and the humble state of his servant both receive God's attention.
Psalm 116:6The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.Both psalms recall being brought low and receiving God's care, with Psalm 116 speaking of one person's rescue.
Psalm 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.Psalm 136 remembers God's care in a low estate; Psalm 142 asks for deliverance from a place of desperate need.
Psalm 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,Both passages describe God's care for people in low circumstances, with Psalm 113 naming the poor and needy.
Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, that there is no one remaining, shut up or left …God's care for his people in weakness connects their low estate with his compassion when his servants' power is gone.
1 Samuel 2:7–8The LORD makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.Both texts speak of low circumstances in relation to God; Samuel names his power to bring low and lift up.
Numbers 10:9When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before …Being remembered by God connects these passages, and Psalm 136's next line shares Numbers' theme of deliverance from adversaries.
1 Samuel 1:19They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD …The LORD remembered Hannah, just as Psalm 136 recounts God's remembrance of his people in their low estate.
Ezekiel 16:3–13and say, ‘The Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a …Both texts look back on a people's past, though the supplied Ezekiel verse names Jerusalem's ancestry rather than God's remembered kindness.
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Israel's low estate did not put them beyond God's notice. Their song remembers his care there, and declares that his loving kindness endures forever.
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