OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 81:5

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He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

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Verse 5. Moved. The ignorance, inapplication, and injustice of those in power overturn the state, which is supported by justice. Proverbs 14:34. They draw down God’s curse upon the land, (Saint Jerome Calmet.) and expose it to all the miseries of anarchy. This regards pastors also. Bert.—By gross ignorance judges walk in darkness, and throw all into confusion.

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