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A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Verse 5. Cause. The captives had not injured Babylon, and Christ had even bestowed the greatest favours upon his enemies. He suffered for our sins. Isaiah 53:4. Calmet.—Away. Christ in his passion made restitution of what he had not taken away, by suffering the punishment due to our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done to God. Challoner.—The expression was proverbial. Jeremiah 31:29. Lamentations 5:7.—Many of the captives were very innocent. Calmet.—But Christ was without sin; ( Worthington.) though made a curse and a sin-offering. Galatians 3:13 and 2 Corinthians 5:21. Calmet.
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