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Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
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Verse 4. ‘Tis well, ‘tis well. Euge, euge. S. Jerom renders it, vah! vah! which is the voice of one insulting and deriding. Some understand it was a detestation of deceitful flatterers. Challoner.—In the New Testament, Well done, denotes applause. Saint Jerome in Ezec. vi.—These predictions relate to the murderers of the Messias. Bert.—In the 39th psalm, the Church prays for aid; and here David, persecuted by Absalom, or any of the just, lays before God his particular wants. Worthington.
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