Holy Scripture

Psalms 103:9

A church father on this verse
“"He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth He His anger for ever" [Psalm 103:9]. Since it is in consequence of His anger that we live in the scourges and corruption of mortality: we have this in punishment for the first sin. ...Is it not through His anger, my brethren, that "in the sweat of thy face and in toil th…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 103

Source: Septuagint

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9Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass, Neither shall they turn again to cover the earth.

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7At thy rebuke they shall flee; At the voice of thy thunder they shall be alarmed.

8They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, To the place which thou hast founded for them.

— Psalms 103:9 —

10He sends forth his fountains among the valleys: The waters shall run between the mountains.

11They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field: The wild asses shall take of them to quench their thirst.

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