OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 73:13

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Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

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Verse 13. The sea firm. By making the waters of the Red Sea stand like firm walls, whilst Israel passed through; and destroying the Egyptians, called here dragons, from their cruelty, in the same waters, with their king; casting up their bodies on the shore, to be stript by the Ethiopians, inhabiting in those days the coast of Arabia. Challoner.—Isaias 27:1 styles Pharao a dragon. See Job 40:20. Calmet. Ezekiel 29:3.—Leviathan denotes a whale, or crocodile, and was an emblem of the devil, and of all tyrants, particularly of antichrist. Bert.

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