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Psalms 143:12

And in your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
13. Listen, then, with all your power, to the commendation of Grace, whereby ye are saved without price. "For Thy Name's sake, O Lord, Thou shalt quicken me in Thy righteousness" (ver. 11); not in mine own: not because I have deserved, but because Thou hast mercy. For were I to show mine own desert, nought should I deserve of Thee, save punishment. Thou hast pruned off from me mine own merits; Thou hast grafted in Thine own gifts. "Thou shalt bring forth my soul out of tribulation." "And in thy mercy shalt bring mine enemies to destruction: and thou shalt destroy all them that afflict my soul; for I am Thy servant" (ver. 12).

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Mercy. Towards me. Justice required that the rebels should be punished, as they were, even contrary to David's intention, 1 Kings xviii. 5. (Calmet)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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