OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 47:1

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Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

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Verse 1. On the, and so forth is not in Hebrew nor Euseb. and so forth It means Sunday, (Saint Ambrose Worthington.) or rather Monday, being sung on that day. Saint Jerome and so forth Bible.—The subject of the former canticle is continued, in thanksgiving to God, for some signal victory, or for the peace which God afforded to his people, after the death of Cambyses. Calmet.—The Fathers explain it of the propagation and peace of the Church. Bible.

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