The Likeness Perfected
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.


Dr. Lyman Abbott says, "The artist stands at his easel painting the portrait of one before him; and I go and look at it, and scowl and shrug my shoulders, and say, 'It is not like him; I can see the ghost of an appearance looking out through the lustreless eyes and the untrue features, but it is not my friend.' And the artist says, 'Wait! when I have finished the picture, and put the purpose — the soul — into it, then judge, not before.' So Christ sits for His portrait, and God takes me as a canvas, and paints, and ever and anon I grow foolish enough to look at myself, and shake my head in despair, amid say, 'That will never he a portrait.' Then I come back to His promise: 'You shall be satisfied when you awake in His likeness,' and I am satisfied beforehand in this hope that He gives me."



Parallel Verses
KJV: As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

WEB: As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,




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