For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Because you say in thought Depart from me, ye wicked, who plot against the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the cities of their habitation; as if they had received them in vain, and to no purpose. (Challoner)
Thy cities. Sixtus V, read "their. "(Calmet)
Schismatics, and all innovators, endeavour to withdraw all their dependencies from the truth; (St. Augustine) and infidels wish to prevent the propagation of the gospel. (Berthier)
The enemies of Nehemias, may be here meant, 2 Esdras iv. 2. (Calmet)
Depart from me, all you who would represent the felicity of heaven to be a dream. (Worthington)
