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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

worshipers being addressed. One may have to avoid the possessive pronoun and say instead “the God we (inclusive) worship.” It is much more common for the vocative (the persons addressed) to be placed immediately before or after the command, or in the following line. Here it is placed in the third line and expanded in both lines of verse 2. In languages which must place the vocative first, some adjustments will be required. For example, “You servants of the Lord, praise the Lord.…” In the same way
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