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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Isa 38:20
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Isa 38:20 · Douay-Rheims
“O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.”
On this verse:
“was ready--not in the Hebrew; "Jehovah was for my salvation," that is, saved me (compare Isa 12:2). we--I and my people. in the house of the Lord--This song was designed, as many of the other Psalms, as a form to be used in public worship at stated times, perhaps on every anniversary of his recovery; hence "all the days of our life." lump of figs--a round cake of figs pressed into a mass (Sa1 25:18). God works by means; the meanest of which He can make effectual. boil--inflamed ulcer, produced by the plague.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.