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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...

equivalent to wormwood and gall, it should be made clear that these are used in a figurative sense. Therefore it is often better to shift to a simile; for example, “When I think of my suffering and living away from home, it is like the taste of bitter liquid.” This verse has two related textual problems. The first is the word soul in My soul continually thinks of it. This is said to be one of the so-called “scribal corrections.” According to Jewish tradition, some words in the Old
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