OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 89:6

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For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,

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Verse 6. Fall. Hebrew “it is cut down and dries.” The heat of the climate caused the flowers to decay ver soon. Isaiah 40:6. Man’s youth touches on old age. Calmet.—The present moment is all we can call our own. Bert.—“A young man may die soon: an old man cannot live long,” says an English proverb. Worthington.

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