OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 136:4

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to him who alone does great wonders, for his loving kindness endures forever;

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Verse 4. Land. they were oppressed with grief, (Sirach 22:6) and unwilling to expose sacred things to profanation, though there was no prohibition for them to sing out of Judea, for their mutual comfort. Calmet.—They excuse themselves on both accounts.

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