OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 89:4

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‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’”

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Verse 4. For, &. This thought naturally tends to convert the sinner.—Watch. Consisting of three hours, (Bert.) which were of unequal length, according to the seasons. Calmet.—A thousand years seem not so long to God. Bible.—What them must be the short life of man? See Job 7:8. Calmet.—None ever lived one thousand years. Yet what would that be, compared with eternity? Worthington.

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