OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 85:11

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Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

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Verse 11. Truth. Let me see the justice of thy conduct in suffering the wicked to prosper, (Psalms 72:17) or let me invariably observe thy holy law, which alone can give me true content.—Rejoice. Hebrew, as we read at present, “likewise fear,” ( Calmet.) “unite,” (Mont.) or “let my heart be one,” solitary, disengaged from all, unicum, (Saint Jerome) “to fear,” and so forth Calmet.—This sense is very good. But yached, means also rejoice. Bert.—Our joy must be mixed with fear. D.

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