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Psalms 80:13

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The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

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Verse 13. Inventions. Ancient psalters read, “wills.” This is the greatest ( Calmet.) of God’s judgments. Romans 1:24. Menochius.—He sometimes permits a person to go on, that he may be disgusted with sin. Ut saturati vitiis vel sic agant pœnitentiam. Saint Jerome—We ought all to dread this root of bitterness, (Hebrews 12:15) which may cause us to resist God’s grace, and to be abandoned by him, as the Israelites seemed to be, before their ruin came on. Bert.

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