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- Chapter 56
- Verse 7
Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
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Gill's Exposition
Shall they escape by iniquity?.... Shall such iniquity as this, or persons guilty of it, go unpunished, or escape righteous judgment, and the vengeance of God? No; and much less shall they escape by…
Barnes' Notes
Shall they escape by iniquity? - This expression in the original is very obscure. There is in the Hebrew no mark of interrogation; and a literal rendering would be, “By iniquity (there is) escape to…
David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath,…
Cambridge Bible
Shall they escape by iniquity? Or, In spite of iniquity shall they escape?When their conduct is so inhuman, shall they escape the judgement? Less probable is the rendering of R.V. marg. (for the…
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