OLD TESTAMENT

Baruch 2:18

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but the soul who is greatly vexed, who goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will declare your glory and righteousness, O Lord.

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Verse 18. Of evil is not in Greek. A soul which bears grandeur with pain, like Esther, and humbles itself before God, is most graciously received. Bible.—Fail, by fasting. Such are the dispositions required for prayer. Psalms 68:3.

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