OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 79:7

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for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

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Verse 7. At us. See Psalms 78:4. Bible.—Such was the condition of Jeremias, 15:10. Calmet.—Hebrew “have scoffed among themselves.” Chal. and S. Jerom agree with us. Scorn is more difficult to bear than poverty. Hence to comfort himself, the psalmist repeats, O God, and so forth Bert.

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