For before these days there were no wages for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the enemy: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Hire, or "reward "merces. (Haydock)
All their toils proved useless: (Calmet) the land would not yield her fruit. (Haydock) See Aggeus ii. 16.
The temple had now been building two years, and then God sent his prophets and many blessings.
Neighbour. Civil broils and the enemy rendered all wretched, 1 Esdras iv.