OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 42:5

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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

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Verse 5. My God. This word is sing.; but the former “Elohim,” is plural, to intimate one God in three persons. Worthington.—Harp. Hebrew cinnor, which Sym. renders, “the psaltery.” The sons of Core were chiefly door-keepers: but they also played on musical instruments. Calmet.

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