OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 129:6

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Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

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Verse 6. From. Or Hebrew “more than the morning watch; yea, more than the morning watch.” I expect my deliverance with greater eagerness than sentinels do the return of morning. All the day and night long I am filled with these sentiments. Calmet.—The hope of penitents resembles the watches of the day, which are more comfortable than those of the night. Worthington.

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