OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 143:12

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In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.

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Verse 12. Whose. Hebrew “our.” This makes quite a different sense from the ancient versions, which refer what follows to the rebels, who had no cause to complain of David’s government, verse 14. Calmet.—S. Jerom, however, agrees with the Hebrew “that our sons may be,” and so forth Prot. asher means “whose (verse 11.) and that.” Bible.—If we supply, they said, the text and versions will give the same sense, (Geneb. Bert.) as it is inserted verse 15. Bible.—Decked. Hebrew “our daughters, like corner-stones cut like a temple,” (Mont.) or “palace.” Prot.

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