OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 61:4

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I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

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Verse 4. Fence. This may refer to the persecutors, who resembled a leaning wall. Bert. Isaiah 30:13. Calmet.—Prot. “ye shall be slain all of you, as a bowing wall shall ye be,” and so forth He threatens them with speedy destruction, ( Bible.) or represents to them the baseness of attacking a man ready to fall. Calmet.—He informs them, that their attempts will be in vain, though they be very numerous, and he himself apparently so weak. Worthington.

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