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Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
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Verse 3. Words. In captivity, legal victims cannot be offered. Calmet.—But a contrite heart is always acceptable. Psalms 50.—Good. While engaged in sin, ( Bible.) “we can offer thee nothing good.”—Calves: victims of praise. Saint Jerome—Hebrew parim. Septuagint omit m, ( Bible.) and render fruit. They are followed by the Arab. and Syr. as well as by the apostle. Hebrews 13:15. Calmet.—We will offer what victims we please. E. Psalms 68:23 and 65:13.
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