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You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
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Verse 29. Deny thee. Break their word and most solemn treaties. Hebrew “shall lie unto thee,” which will afford thee a just reason to seize their effects. Bible.—Some translate, “the efforts of thy enemies shall be frustrated.”—Necks. Thus Josue ordered the five kings to be treated, (Joshua 10:24) and Tamerlane used Bajazet as a footstool, when he had to mount his horse. Calmet.—This fierce Tartarian conqueror, the enemy of the Christian name, humbled the pride of the Turkish emperor, by confining him in a cage of iron, A.D. 1403. Bible.
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