We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly from 1 Kings 8:47, with extremely slight differences, indicated in R.V. by the substitution of donefor dealt, and of dealtfor done. Psalms 106:6 is based similarly on 1 Kings 8:47.

and have turned aside from thy commandments] Cf. Deuteronomy 17:20; Psalms 119:102. -Even" with the partic. is quite false; the construction of the Heb. is one with which every tyro is familiar (Genesis 41:43; Exodus 8:11, &c.).

judgements i.e. ordinances, as the word is sometimes rendered (Joshua 24:25; 2Ki 17:34; 2 Kings 17:37; Isaiah 58:2). Properly a judicial decision, which being made legally binding, becomes a standing ordinance; the word being then generalized, it is applied to moral and religious ordinances, as well as to statutes of the civil and criminal law, Exodus 21:1). See e.g. Leviticus 18:4-5; Leviticus 18:26; Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:5; Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 4:14, &c.

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