Litt. D. Charles Foster Kent
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 150
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...with Ps. 30 are many and close. Probably the author of Jon. 2 was familiar with the older ps. His figures, however, are more hyperbolic and varied. In any case they are not to be interpreted literalistically. As in Ps. 30, the poet probably has primarily in mind his own experiences as an exile in a foreign land. His zeal for the temple service is strong, cf. 7-8, and indicates that he probably lived during the Greek period. For critical notes, cf. 202k-Q, Vol. III. All thy breakers and thy waves passed over me. 4Then I said, 'I am driven out from before thine eyes; How shall I ever again look towards thy holy temple?' 5The waters surrounded me even to the quenching of my life, the abyss engulfed me, The sea weeds were wrapped about my head; 6I went down to the roots of the mountains; The earth with its bars was behind me forever. HU Yet thou hast brought up my life from destruction, O Jehovah my God. restore-7yhen my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah, vows to nd mv Praver came to thee, into thy holy temple. Jcho-8They who regard vain gods forsake their own mercy, vah 9But I will sacrifice to thee with loud thanksgiving, I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is Jehovah's. 77. Thanksgiving for Personal Deliverance, Ps. 6C13-20 The Ps. 66 13I will enter thy house with burnt offerings, I will pay to thee my vows, 'rf a "Even those which my lips have uttered,"1 And my mouth spoke in my distress. "I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fallings, Together with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. The 16O come, hear, and let me relate,1 Jjalj All of you who fear Jehovah, poet's What he hath done for me: giving9" 17To him I cried with my mouth, ' And him I extolled with my...