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Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.
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Verse 9. As a. Septuagint “a den of the hyena:” Alex. “robbers.” Grabe inserts, “or a den around it?” Bible.—They have read auss, “a den,” instead of hait, “a bird.” Bochart, (iii. 11.) however, shews that the latter word denotes various wild beasts, and nearly follows the Septuagint Though the inheritance be most charming, it shall not pass unpunished. Calmet.
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