For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken us, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to give us life, and to set up the house of our God, and rebuild the desolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.
George Leo Haydock
Fence. Hebrew gader, “the name which the Carthaginians” gave to Cadiz, “as it signifies a fence,” or an inclosure. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxii.) (Calmet) — Some Latin manuscripts read spem, “hope.” (Lyranus) — The Tig. version understands the wall of Jerusalem, built in a hurry. (Menochius) — But this was not perfected, (Haydock) if begun, till the time of Nehemias, 2 Esdras i. 3. (Calmet) — God gave his protection to the people, (Haydock; Delrio, adag. 219.) by the king of Persia. (Tirinus)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.