Holy Scripture

Psalms 68:8

A church father on this verse
“Again, Aeschylus the tragedian, setting forth the power of God, does not shrink from calling him the Highest, in these words:Place God apart from mortals; and think not That he is, like yourself, corporeal. You know him not. Now he appears as fire, Dread force; as water now; and now as gloom; And in the beasts is diml…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 5

Source: Septuagint

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8For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; Shame has covered my face.

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6O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

7Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

— Psalms 68:8 —

9I became strange to my brethren, And a stranger to my mother’s children.

10For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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