OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 39:12

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“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

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Verse 12. Withhold not. The prophet now speaks in the name of Christ’s mystical body, the Church, praying to be made a partaker of mercy, and to be delivered from evils, ( Worthington.) or Christ speaks as the victim for our sins. Bible.—Uphold me. This might be also rendered as a prayer, “May thy,” and so forth with the Hebrew and some copies of the Septuagint Bert.

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