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Psalms 139:9

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If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

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Verse 9. Desire. If I yield to my passions, (Saint Augustine) or after I have expressed my request, contrary to my desire, and so forth Hebrew “Grant not the desire of the sinner, complete not his thought. They will be elated.” Some supply, “lest they be.” The ancients seem not to have read in the same manner. Bert.—Abandon not my soul, which is all my care, (Psalms 21:21) to the sinner. Calmet.

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