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know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
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Verse 13. Side. Hebrew “snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your side.” Children and slaves were formerly beaten on this part, Sirach 30:12 and 42:5. Horace (epod. iv.) says, Ibericis peruste funibus latus. The first word S. Jerom seems to have read with th at the end, as peth, means a hole, ( Calmet.) by which means it was customary to take wild beasts, and to annoy the enemy. Bible.—Septuagint render side, “they shall be nails in your heels.”
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