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(Psa 19:5, Psa 19:6). “Panting” as the Hebrew for “hasteth”; metaphor, from a runner (Psa 19:5, “a strong man”) in a “race.” It applies rather to the rising sun, which seems laboriously to mount up to the meridian, than to the setting sun; the accents too favor Maurer, “And (that too, returning) to his place, where panting he riseth.”