OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 136:8

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the sun to rule by day, for his loving kindness endures forever;

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Verse 8. Daughter. Citizens.—Miserable “plunderer,” (Sym.) or “ruined,” (Aquila) or “which shalt be given up to plunder.” Theod.—Cyrus reduced the city to a state of abjection, and it has since experienced other miseries, ( Calmet.) so that its situation is now unknown. Bible.—Isaias (13) foretold this destruction. Worthington.

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