OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 40:5

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Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

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Verse 5. Thee. Christ prays for his members, acknowledging their sins, ( Worthington.) which he had undertaken to expiate. The Fathers explain this of his prayer in the garden. Calmet.—Have we ever reflected on sin, which reduced the Lord of all, to such poverty and distress? Bert.

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