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Psalms 107:3

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 107:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And gathered them out of the lands (compare the prayer of ; and for the expression, "the lands"—i.e. the foreign countries—see ; ). From the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

The present Hebrew text has מִיָּם, "from the sea" and so the LXX; ἀπὸ θαλάσσης—but it is thought that probably מִיָּם is a corruption of מִיָּמִין (Cheyne), which would mean "from the south."

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