OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 84:5

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Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

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Verse 5. Convert. Bring back the remnant of thy people, dispersed through the world. Only a few returned under Cyrus; the rest came back by degrees principally during the reigns of Hystaspes and Alexander the Great. Calmet. Diss.—While we continue unconverted, we are objects of God’s wrath. Bert. Lamentations 5:21.—Our Saviour. Septuagint “of our salvations.” Saint Jerome “our Jesus.” Bible.—Saviour of mankind, mitigate thy wrath against us. Worthington.

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