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Psalms 21:8

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Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

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Verse 8. All. This often denotes only the greatest number. Saint Jerome—For surely the blessed Virgin, and some others, must be excepted. Bible.—But almost all joined in persecuting Christ, ( Worthington.) while his disciples left him. Calmet.—These two verses are quoted by the three first evangelists.—Spoken. Hebrew “opened or distorted.” Bert.—“They shoot out the lip.” Prot.—These signs and expressions ( Bible.) mark the greatest contempt, verse 14. Job 16:4. and so forth

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