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You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
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Verse 5. Shield. God’s fidelity, or word, affords the best protection. Proverbs 30:5. Calmet.—Having the spirit of faith, a man is secure. But he whose heart is hardened, (Bert.) is covered with the buckler of God’s affliction, (Lamentations 3:64. Bible.) abuses every thing, and seems bewitched with self-love. Galatians 1. Bert.—Night. Devils, spectres, and so forth (Song of Songs 3:7. Calmet.) and treacherous insinuations, that people are not bound to confess the truth, in time of danger. Worthington.
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