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Psalms 55:5

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Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

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Verse 5. My words. The words or promises God has made in my favour. Challoner.—Praising God ( Bible.) removed the dejection of David. Euseb.—Detested. Prot. “wrest.” They put an evil construction upon what I say, ( Bible.) and make me their laughing-stock. Psalms 37:13. Calmet.—But I cease not to proclaim what God has declared in my favour, ( Bible.) or what good I have been enabled to effect by his grace. My enemies may meet to devise my ruin, and to supplant me: yet all in vain. Worthington.

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