LORD, you have been favorable unto your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Blessed. Hebrew, "taken into favour "or "hast rendered fruitful. "(Judea) (Calmet)
God had bestowed many benefits upon his people, rescuing them from the Egyptian bondage, and not punishing them as much as they deserved. (Worthington)
Others explain it of the captivity at Babylon, or under the devil. (Menochius)
David speaks of the former event by the prophetic spirit, and the latter misfortune was always deplorable, and to be terminated only by the Messias. (Berthier)
The redemption of man was prefigured by the liberation of the Jews. (Du Hamel)
