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You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
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Verse 2. Uttered. Hebrew rachash, “boileth,” as one unable to contain himself. Bert.—Speak, or “dedicate,” dico, ( Bible.) though here it only means to speak. Calmet.—He addresses the object of his praise, instead of invoking the muses. Saint Jerome—Swiftly. I have not to meditate. Calmet.—The Holy Ghost moves my tongue, (2 Peter 1:21) as fast as my hands can write. Jeremiah 36:18 and 4 Esdras 14:39. Bible.—High mysteries, in honour of the great king, occupy my thoughts, and to him I refer this canticle. Worthington.
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