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Psalms 83:3

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 83:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people. Such a widespread confederacy as that described below () cannot have been formed without much secret consultation and plotting. And consulted against thy hidden ones; i.

e. "those whom thou hidest in the covert of thy presence from the plottings of man" (, Revised Version: comp. ).

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