dch. 57:9 (Heb.).
ech. 19:5.
fSee Ex. 2:3.
g Eccles. 9:11. ch. 19:1. & 30:16. Jer. 2:23. & 46:6. Lam. 4:19. Amos 2:14, 15. Comp. Job 9:26.
hver. 7.
||Or, i outspread and j polished. ver. 7. i Comp. ch. 45:14.
j Ezek. 29:18. Comp. 1 Kin. 7:45 marg.
hver. 7.
kSo Heb. of 1 Sam. 18:9. Ezek. 39:22.
||Or, a nation that meteth out, and l treadeth down.
†Heb. a nation of m line, line, and treading under foot.
hver. 7.
||Or, whose land the rivers despise.
hver. 7.

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