And the house of such a man was called domus discalceati, that is to say, "The house of him that hath his shoe loosed." Shechem was an important portion of the country, which as yet had not yielded to his government; but he saw that by Jehovah's help it would be, and indeed was all his own. Joab, opposed to the Syrians, gained the first success, and the Ammonites, seeing their allies routed, took to flight into their town. “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.” — Psalm xxxii. I. Psalm 60:8-10 Moab is my washpot "Moab is my wash-pot," nothing more — a thing contemptible and despicable as compared with the eternal realities of covenant blessings; yet, for all that, there was a use for Moab, a use to be rightly understood. William Walford. We may by faith ask for and expect that our extremity will be God's opportunity; special and memorable deliverances will be wrought out when dire calamities appear to be imminent. Psalm 53. See "Spurgeon's Sermons, "No. This Psalm is often and fitly called THE SINNER'S GUIDE. No enemy shall withhold from true faith what God has given her, for grace makes her mighty to wrest it from the foe. The salt, where thus exposed, is everywhere more or less furrowed by the rains. Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. David, under God, must have the honour of the work, for the increase of his name, being set for the typing out of Christ, who must have all the glory of the day, whatever conquest he gets by instruments of that service here, who likewise are typed out in David's worthies, of whom Joab and Abishai were chief. Do not save a drop or a drag: try not to hide one secret sorrow from your God, nor one slight grief that nestles in a corner of your spirit. This people, who were lately divided and under several banners, thou hast now gathered together and united under one banner; to wit, under my government. Our great enquiry. Verse 3. The reference, as interpreters conceive, is to those homebred divisions, those civil wars betwixt the two houses of Saul and David, after the death of Saul: then did the "earth, "the land, that land of Israel (as the Chaldee explains it), quake and tremble, being broken, riven (as the word in the original signifieth): even as the earth sometimes by earthquakes is riven, and torn asunder with prodigious chasms, openings, or gapings: so was that kingdom divided in those civil commotions, the nobles and commons taking parts and siding, some with David, some with Ishbosheth. Truth promotes truth. David treats his foes as but insignificant and inconsiderable; a whole nation he counts but as a footbath for his kingdom.   Moreover, the frequent use of this phrase meeting us very often in the book of God, makes this to be the meaning of the words, as clear as the day. The People’s Contemplation of Abandonment (60:1-5). Why a banner? Cure. O God, thou hast cast us off. There are no reasons why we should believe it was so, and there are a great many why we should …, Plenary Absolution We must commence by noticing the connection, that we may arrive at the first meaning of the words. An insult offered to David's ambassadors by Hanun, king of the Ammonites, led to a serious war. That is, he hath given out his word from heaven, the habitation of his holiness and of his glory; or, he hath spoken it certainly, there is nothing but holiness in his word (and that is the strength of words). “Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.”— Psalm cxix.   His were the politics of piety, which after all are the wisest and most profound. Verse 2. Verse 3. Broken, as by foreign persecutions, so by homebred divisions. Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. Robinson's "Biblical Researches in Palestine.". This Psalm is the brightest gem in the whole book, and contains instruction so large, and doctrine so precious, that the tongue of angels could not do justice to the full development. There are seven stanzas; twice three two line stanzas, having one of three lines in the middle, which forms the clasp or spangle of the septiad, a circumstance which is strikingly appropriate to the fact that the psalm is called "the Old Testament Paternoster" in some of the old expositors. Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. Moab in the East, Edom in the South, and Philistia in the West (the North is not mentioned, because the banner of David had already been victorious there.) He who proved to us our need of him by showing us what poor creatures we are without him, will now reveal the glory of his help by conducting great enterprises to a noble issue. To be sung to the tune “Lily of the Testimony.” Augustus F. Tholuck. Give us help from trouble.   Verse 7. Of union. Moab, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and become so utterly contemptible as to be likened to a washpot or basin in which men wash their feet. This is the main design of providence, That thy beloved may be delivered; if it were not for their sakes he would neither give a banner nor send victory to it. For teaching. When he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. I will divide Shechem. Remember that the words before verse 1 are also part of the psalm. Verse 4. Verse 2. Verse 6. Psalm 60#sn Psalm 60. [Psalm 60:8] Charles Spurgeon: Holiness [05] All the Day Long - “Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. Verse 4. "And the Lord said to Moses, Make thee a serpent, and set it upon a standard pole; and it happened that every one who was bitten, and looked at it, lived." 983, "Moab is my washpot.". Commentary on Psalm 60:6-12 (Read Psalm 60:6-12) If Christ be ours, all things, one way or another, shall be for our eternal good. 4. Verse 8. Verse 5.   The work remains in print today in several editions. It is meet that desires for good things should flow from good motives. The banner is a pledge of safety, and a rallying point to those who fight under it. What is to be done with it. Whole Psalm. A mere pot to hold the dirty water after my feet have been washed in it.      Upon Zion there was erected an altar dedicated to God for the offering of sacrifices. Study the bible online using commentary on Psalm 60 and more! More than this, however, may have been intended—nay, we feel sure was intended by the … Eloquence, learning, wit, none of these can force the gate, but there is One who can. And borne aloft thy truth divine. Verse 7. Verse 11. Moab is my washpot. Title. Do thou, O Lord, work this deliverance, for vain is the help of man. Verse 2. He is the Law giver of his church, and let him so be. Verses 6-7. The man who is a new creature in Christ, may rejoice in all the precious promises God has spoken in his holiness. Christ our Passover — 1 Corinthians 5:7 → A SERMON. We shall do valiantly, we will not be ashamed of our colours, afraid of our foes, or fearful of our cause.   Verse 8. Thus did David look upon Israel's disease, and hereupon it was that he was so deeply affected with it, so earnestly desiring the cure of it. John Brinsley (1600-1665), in "The Healing of Israel's Breaches.". Help us to overcome the disasters of civil strife and foreign invasion; save us from further incursions from without and division within. The Lord's return to us and ours to him. Thou hast given us an army and power to oppose our enemies. SUBJECT AND DIVISION. That thy beloved may be delivered. David having received this word stands assured, that as Shechem and Succoth, Gilead and Manasseh, Ephraim and Judah would willingly submit to him and yield obedience; so, also, that Moab, Edom, and Philistia, who were his professed enemies, should be subdued to him. Psalm 60[ a]( A) For the director of music. 6. All was now dry; and in some places it was difficult to make our way through the exuberant growth. So it was with the literal typical Israel, David's kingdom; so it may be with spiritual mystical Israel, the kingdom of Christ, the church of God upon earth. God hath spoken in his holiness. The psalm expresses the feelings of a people shocked and confused by a tragedy which suggested that God had abandoned them. Some read it, "Thou wilt turn to us again, "and it makes but slight difference which way we take it, for a true hearted prayer brings a blessing so soon that it is no presumption to consider it already obtained. Psalm 59: The content of the psalm reinforces the occasion cited in the superscription. IT is a notion of the Rabbis that this Psalm was sung by Adam in Paradise. Read Psalm 60 commentary using The Treasury of David. Or secondly, conquest over them—I will walk through Edom and subdue it. "Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon." The discrepancy may be explained by supposing that the title contains the numbers slain by one division of the army, or that the twelve thousand were slain in the battle, and the residue in the flight. But the mentioning of these chief generals, by whom the service was performed, is another. I will rejoice, or "I will triumph." Dark signs of present or coming ill must not dishearten us; if the Lord had meant to destroy us he would not have given us the gospel; the very fact that he has revealed himself in Christ Jesus involves the certainty of victory. Verse 1. Copyright © 2001 by Phillip R. Johnson.   O the glorifying of faith! The veterans of the valley of salt could not force the passage, yet was it to be attempted, and David looked to the Lord for help. When he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah. 5. William Struther. by Steve Owen At first reading this seems a rather strange Psalm. IN THE YEAR 1863. He traced at once the evil to its true source, and began at the fountainhead. Verse 5. Our banners trailed in the mire have proven our weakness without thee, but yonder standard borne aloft before us shall witness to our valour now that thou hast come to our rescue. To be displayed. Ephraim also is the strength of mine head. (See Ge 33:17-18.) It is evident of what value and importance this promise was, and particularly the remembrance of it at this time. Lily of the Testimony may refer to an instrument or to a tune. When, keeping in view the idea of washing the feet, a person throws his shoes, which he has taken off, to any one to be taken away or to be cleaned—kylvh with le and also with la, 1Ki 19:19, is "to throw to any one"—the individual to whom it belongs to perform such an office must be a slave of the lowest kind. A. R. Faussett. By these are meant Samaria; and David's dividing or meting them out, is a phrase to express his dominion over them, in being part of the regal power to distribute his province into cities and regions, and place judges and magistrates over them. The name Aram corresponds to Syria in its widest and vaguest sense, and is joined with other names to designate particular parts of that large country. 2979 A SERMON PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, JULY 29TH, 1905, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. This is the secret of our miseries. Joab could not bring David into Edom. Be so subdued as to rejoice in my victories over my other foes. Verse 6. Faith regards the promise not as fiction but fact, and therefore drinks in joy from it, and grasps victory by it. If the preceding views are correct, we may rest in the result, that the present Sâkût represents the name and site of the ancient Succoth...We passed obliquely along the northern slope of the same broad swell, where the ground was covered only by a thick crop of thistles. The language of complaint is usually confused, and faith in time of trouble ere long contradicts the desponding statements of the flesh. The ridge of Usdum exhibits more distinctly its peculiar formation; the main body of the mountain being a solid mass of rock salt... We could at first hardly believe our eyes, until we had several times approached the precipices, and broken off pieces to satisfy ourselves, both by the touch and taste. Astonishing sin followed by astonishing chastisements, discoveries of corruption, of the spirituality of the law, of the terrors of divine wrath, and by astonishing depressions, temptations, and conflicts. Magna est veritas et praevalebit. Judah is (or shall be) my lawgiver, i.e., all his subjects should be brought under one Head, one governor, who should give them laws, according to which they should be ordered or governed, which power and authority belonged to the tribe of Judah, according to that prophecy of Jacob (Ge 49:10), to which the psalmist here alludes. At last we came to the cause of this fertility, a fine brook winding along the bottom. Parts of it may even appear faintly ridiculous to unsanctified eyes. Save with thy right hand, and hear me. Click the title of a sermon to view or save the PDF. At any rate, that passage in which the serpent is a symbol of the healing power of God, may serve to illustrate the passage before us. God had promised Israel victory, and David the kingdom; the holiness of God secured the fulfilment of his own covenant, and therefore the king spake confidently. 1Ch 19:12. Verse 6. With the Greeks, plunein tina, to wash down any one, was a slang term, signifying to ridicule, abuse, or beat; hence we have the word washpot applied to the subject of such treatment. Bible Toggle Dropdown. They pray that this may be done with the utmost speed, because there was a danger in delay, for the kingdom was already pressed down with a heavy calamity, and on the brink of ruin, which is signified by the word hjm whose origin is in a very strong and tremulous inclination to one side, properly from the application of a lever, and is applied to those who are leaning so far to one side that they are just on the point of falling; figuratively, therefore, it expresses a most perilous condition, in which one is on the edge of destruction.      Moab, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and become so utterly contemptible as to be likened to a washpot or basin in which men wash their feet. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” — Psalm ciii. Verse 3. Every believer also may by faith triumph over all difficulties, and reign with him who hath made us kings and priests. Albert Barnes. Though thou slay us, we will trust in thee, and look for thy merciful help. Charles H. Spurgeon . As the east so the west of Jordan should be allotted to the proper persons. Implying that Moab should be reduced to slavery, it being the business of a slave to present the hand washing basin to his master. Verse 12. As a man when bathing throws his shoes on one side, so would he obtain his dominion over haughty Esau's descendants as easily as a man casts a shoe. A Psalm of David. No way, no means to bring the people unto unity, to bring them into one body, but by bringing them under on head, one law giver, by whose laws they may be regulated and governed.   In war these two must be joined, and indeed in all actions: HE, we; God and man. The bravest men are usually intrusted with the banner, and it is certain that those who fear God must have less fear of man than any others. When we have achieved great success it must be a stimulus to greater efforts, but it must not become a reason for self confidence. Who will give the church the power to accomplish this? For the choir director: A psalm # 60:TITLE Hebrew miktam. God hath spoken in his holiness. Faith is never happier than when it can fall back upon the promise of God. William S. Plumer. Verse 7. That it may be displayed because of the truth. The believer owning no law but that which comes from Christ. Toggle navigation. "—Psalm 60:8 . David found himself the possessor of a tottering throne, troubled with the double evil of factions at home, and invasion from abroad. Aramnaharaim. NO. "You do not appear to be in your right senses, who make a washpot of me in the presence of many men." Franz Delitzsch. Both these ways was the church during the apostles' time broken, distressed by enemies from without who persecuted it. Shushaneduth. He claims the whole land on account of the promise. Many superficial readers have imagined that it harps upon one string and abounds in pious repetitions and redundancies. I will divide Shechem, etc. The Treasury of David by Charles Spurgeon is a Bible commentary on the book of Psalms chapters. Whole Psalm. The city of the seven hills must yet hear the gospel. That is, presaging nothing but ruin and downfall, unless it be speedily underpropped, and the breaches thereof made up and healed. She sets this over against all discouraging circumstances; let outward providences say what they will, the voice of a faithful God drowns every sound of tear. God's beloved are the inner seed, for whose sake he preserves the entire nation, which acts as a husk to the vital part. This king elsewhere singing his trophies, saith, "They are fallen under my feet." WE shall aim at no novelty to-night, nor shall we try to serve up the old truths in any new and attractive forms. For a small moment doth he forsake, but with great mercy does he gather his people. The grass, intermingled with tall daisies, and the wild oats reached to the horses backs; while the thistles sometimes overtopped the rider's heads.   Judah is my lawgiver. (last clause). Kansas City, Missouri 64118, © 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Over Edom will I cast out my shoe. Excerpt from Spurgeon's Introduction to Psalm 119 [Psalm 119] is like the celestial city which lies four-square, and the height and the breadth of it are equal. High up among the stars stood the city of stone, but God could lead his servant up to it. God hath spoken the word, saith he, therefore is shall be done, yea, it is done; and therefore David cried, All's mine, Gilead in mine, Manasseh is mine, Moab and Edom are mine, as soon as God had spoken the word. Parts of it may even appear faintly ridiculous to unsanctified eyes. Turn us to thee, turn thou to us. We have divided it as the sense appeared to change. The perturbation, the prayer, the plea. Verse 1. (a) Left of God's Spirit. Hebrew, "Wine of staggering, "that is, which causeth staggering, or, in other words, intoxicating. So far gone was Israel, that only God's interposition could preserve it from utter destruction. (b) Scattered. This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. But if the enemies were too strong, one would help the other. The psalmist compares the salvation which the Lord bestows upon his people to a highly excellent banner, which serves as a signal, to one lying prostrate in his misery, to rise up, with an allusion perhaps to Nu 21:8. A banner, which is a sign or instrument: 1.   Urgent distress puts men upon pressing and bold petitions such as this. He had been engaged in another region, and the enemies of Israel took advantage of his absence, but on his return with Abishai the fortunes of war were changed. "I myself will awake early. We have met with the title of this Psalm before, in Psalms 4, 6, 54, and 55, but with this difference, that in the present case the word is in the singular number: the Psalm itself is very personal, and well adapted for the private devotion of a single individual. When he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. Once she defiled Israel, according to the counsel of Balaam, the son of Beor; but she shall no longer be able to perpetrate such baseness; she shall be a washpot for those whom she sought to pollute. Easily are we victors when Omnipotence leads the way. So Hupfeld explains the constructions, referring to Ps 80:5, "Thou hast made them feed upon weeping like bread; "1Ki 22:27, "Feed him with affliction as bread, and with affliction as water" uxl mymw; Isa 30:20. Their invading bands had been slain in the valley of salt, and David intended to push his conquests even to Petra the city of the rock, deemed to be impregnable. Here is one suppliant for many, even as in the case of our Lord's intercession for his saints. The remarkable order of these words suggests that—. Who will lead me into Edom? Verse 7. Because of the truth. Live up to thy privileges, take the good which God provides thee. 1. Psalm 108 – Praise and Trust from the Past for Today. Thou hast given us to drink infatuation, or bewilderment, as men drink wine. But if we look further into this Psalm, remembering… Verse 7. John Mayer. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. Two other great divisions of the country he mentions, evidently delighting to survey the goodly land which the Lord had given him.   That God does afflict his people severely, and that he has good reason for the same. Hanun obtained mercenaries from Syria to reinforce his army, Joab and Abishai his brother, David's generals, gave them battle. Verse 3. Verse 11. Through God we shall do, etc. Post navigation ← 53. Aristophanes. TITLE. Or does he mean, I who smote thy champion have at length so subdued thee that thou shalt never be able to rejoice over Israel again; but if thou must needs triumph it must be with me, and not against me; or rather is it a taunting defiance, a piece of irony? Study the Bible online. He asks God for an answer. It was all but inaccessible, and hence the question of David. Verse 8. Heathen nations are yet to be subdued. A purgative, a tonic. What Psalm 60 means. "—Psalm 65:1-2 John Trapp. The psalm is in three parts. When God has spoken, his divine shall, our I will, becomes no idle boast, but the fit echo of the Lord's decree. Verse 12. Any men of God who have had experience as deep, and trying, and varied as that of Moses will be the better able to enter into the spirit of the Psalm. In the case of Christians there is much encouragement for a resolve similar to that of the first clause. The wicked as we see in them the evil, the fruit, and the punishment of sin, shall help on the purification of the saints. Thou has scattered us. When Joab returned. Believer make good use of this, and banish doubts while promises remain. Verse 2. We are warned by their sin, and punishment, etc. As we advanced, large lumps and masses broken off from above, lay like rocks along the shore, or were fallen down as debris. I will divide Shechem, as subjects to me as Joshua having the land under him, divided it amongst his people: so David being king over all the parts of the land, divides to his followers such portions as belonged unto them by inheritance, from which happily some of them had been expelled by the time of Ishbosheth his reign; or some families in the time of those wars might be utterly wasted away, and so the king having free power to dispose of their lands, might give them amongst his men, and take part to himself. And of this eighteen thousand attributed to David and Abishai before, Joab slew twelve thousand of them; the memory of which service is here embalmed with a Psalm; first showing the extremes they were in, doubtful at first they should not get the victory. Psalm 60 – From Defeat to Victory in God. Subsequently to these events the whole land was in a very disturbed and agitated condition, arising out of the contentions between the partisans of Saul's family, and those who were attached to David. Cause. By him it is again let to the different villages. Psalm 22:29 Life's Need and Maintenance. SUBJECT AND DIVISION.—This Psalm … More than this, however, may have been intended—nay, we feel … Wahrscheinlich Angabe der Melodie, nach welcher der Psalm gesungen werden sollte, vielleicht der gleichen, welche bei Ps. In our version it is a prayer; in the Septuagint an expression of faith—"Thou wilt return.". When a cast off soul sighs for its God it is indeed not cast off at all. Verse 3. More than this, however, may have been intended—nay, we feel sure was intended by the …, THE STUDENT’S PRAYER. Jehovah, through Christ, is frequently said to turn to the world to see what its condition is, and always with the same result. Israel might well come forth boldly, for a sacred standard was borne aloft before them. Properly the song may be said to consist of three parts: the complaining verses, Ps 60:1-3; the happy, Ps 60:4-8; the prayerful, Ps 60:9-12. Thus dare we defy the last enemy, "O death, where is thy sting? John Calvin. Banners are for the breeze, the sun, the battle. It is a very great relief to shed tears; it gives a vent …, Morning and Evening Songs No earthly lamp avails to break, Francois Lenormant and E. Chevallier, in "A Manual of the Ancient History of the East, "1869. This may be a literary or musical term. 45 noch kürzer bezeichnet ist. Verse 8. 2. Symmachus, "wine of agitation, "and this sense I have adopted which is also that of the Syriac. Verses 6 - 8 are God’s answer. 2. No government could stand which was not resident in Judah. The psalmist claims that they were still the Lord's own people, though in the first verse he had said, "thou hast cast us off." O turn thyself to us again. The inhabitants of Tûbâs are divided into three hostile parties; and they carry their divisions into their agriculture in the Ghôr. Thou hast made the earth to tremble. We have met with the title of this Psalm before, in Psalm 4, Psalm 6, Psalm 54, and Psalm 55, but with this difference, that in the present case the word is in the singular number: the Psalm itself is very personal, and well adapted for the private devotion of a single individual. Save... and hear. The sense justifies it, and the more joyful strain of the music necessitates it. He loves us still. God will bow to the accomplishment of his purposes all the valour of men; the church may cry, "the prowess of armies is mine, " God will overrule all their achievements for the progress of his cause. The Lord has given us the standard of the gospel, let us live to uphold it, and if needful die to defend it. Verse 1. This Psalm is … Helped in the past, we shall also be helped in the future, and being assured of this we resolve to play the man. And mete out the valley of Succoth. Victorinus Strigelius, 1524-1569. Joab, it seems, took this in his return from the former slaughter, and fell in for the assistance of his brother Abishai (for that was their usual course: though they divided their armies, they did not divide their hearts).   Well did the Lord deserve a song from his servant. Psalm 108:1-5 is very similar to Psalm 57:7-11, and Psalm 108:6-13 is almost identical to Psalm 60:5-12. David clearly sees the fruits of the divine anger, he traces the flight of Israel's warriors, the breaking of her power, the division in her body politic, to the hand of God. "LORD make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." It is strong language, meaning that God had seemed to treat them as if they were loathsome of offensive to him. God's holy promise, ground for present joy, and for boldly taking possession of the promised good. And of our captors captives make. Verse 7. By these he obtained that great victory over Hadadezer. 12. Philistia, triumph thou because of me. JOSEPH A ALEXANDER Psalms Commentary (1864) Spurgeon had high praise for Alexander's work writing that it "Occupies a first place among expositions. Or, if they will, let them triumph: Triumph thou, O Philistia, because of me, or over me. Divine working is not an argument for human inaction, but rather is it the best excitement for courageous effort. John Brinsley. Joseph Caryl. The answer is not far to seek. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; to show that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”— …, The Danger of Unconfessed Sin Hermann Venema. of David useful for teaching, regarding the time David fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and killed 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. Healing for the Wounded — Psalm 147:3 54. ... Psalm 59 | Psalm 60 >> (Read all of Psalm 59) ... From "The Psalms translated from the Hebrew, with Notes chiefly exegetical." Verses 9 - 12 are again the words of David. Selah. Verses 1 - 5 are the words of David. Thou hast broken it. Verse 4. Thou hast given a banner, etc. The whole tract north of Wady Mâlih was said to be farmed from the government by one of the Sheiks of the Jenâr family, who live at Jeba and in its neighbourhood. "—Psalms 57:8 J. J. Stewart Perowne. The Shoe of Judgment Psalm 60:8 Feb. 18, 2009 FBC, Chester Dr. Mike Fogerson, Speaker Introduction A On December 14, 2008, our former President made a farewell address to the land that was liberated from Saddam Hussein. Psalm 60 (Masoretic numbering; psalm 59 in Greek numbering) of the Book of Psalms is addressed "to the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth Michtam of David, when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.". As the earth cracks, and opens itself in rifts during violent earthquakes, so was the kingdom rent with strife and calamity. Over Edom will I cast out my shoe. 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