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We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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Verse 18. Wind. Our expectation of aid from others has been disappointed. Calmet.—Septuagint “the spirit of thy salvation, which thou hast wrought on the earth. We shall not fall, but the inhabitants of the earth shall fall.” Bible.—Their copies must have been different from ours.—Fallen. The Chanaanites are left for our trial and punishment. Calmet.
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