OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 30:11

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You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

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Verse 11. Poverty. Septuagint have read ani instead of haoni, “my iniquity,” which seems less accurate, as David had not offended Saul. Sym. has “malice,” ( Calmet.) or “ill-treatment,” κακωσιν. Bible.—We may form some judgment of David’s distress, from his being obliged to eat the consecrated bread at Nobe. Calmet.—Yet without making any change to the Hebrew we may explain it in the sense of the Vulg. as áve signifies to be “bent down.” Bert.—“Chastisements waste my strength.” Pr. disc.—Jesus was a man of sorrows. Bert.

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