OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 55:4

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My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

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Verse 4. The height of the day. That is, even at noon day, when the sun is the highest, I am still in danger. Challoner.—Hebrew “many fight against me from an elevation, or from day-break.”—Fear. Many prefix a negation, which S. Jerom rejects, (ad Sun.) explaining this height of the divine majesty. Calmet.—David felt the impressions of fear; but corrected them by his confidence in God. Worthington.

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