OLD TESTAMENT

Habakkuk 2:7

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Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

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Verse 7. Bile, like worms in the grave. Cyrus will overturn the kingdom. The Rabbins pretend that Evilmerodac caused his father’s body to be cut in pieces for the crows, lest he should return again. Calmet.

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