OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 90:3

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You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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Verse 3. Delivered me. Hebrew and Septuagint “shall deliver thee.” Yet the Alex. copy has me. Bible.—The psalmist addresses his own soul. Bert.—Word, verbo: we sometimes find “sword,” printed by mistake. Hebrew dabar, signifies “word, thing, pestilence, and so forth” Bible.—The devil employs human respect to draw many into his nets. Saint Augustine Bert.—Neither subtle craft, nor the cruelty of tyrants will disturb those who trust in Providence. Worthington.

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