OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 106:3

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Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

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Verse 3. Sea. Hebrew miyam, for which we should read imim “the right,” denoting the south. Calmet.—But the sea, or ocean, is properly used in the same sense. Bert.—The Ammonites, Philistines, Syrians, and Idumeans, from these four quarters, often reduced the Israelites to servitude, under the judges. Houbig.—From all parts, the Jews of the ten tribes returned in the reigns of Darius and Alexander. Calmet. Diss.—But the texts which are applied to this event speak rather of the conversion of the Gentiles, which the prophet has here in view. Bert.—None are excluded from the benefits of this redemption, but by their own fault. Worthington.

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