We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were given birth to wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Wind. Our expectation of aid from others has been disappointed. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "the spirit of thy salvation, which thou hast wrought on the earth. We shall not fall, but the inhabitants of the earth shall fall. "(Haydock)
Their copies must have been different from ours.
Fallen. The Chanaanites are left for our trial and punishment. (Calmet)