Genesis 9:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Before they loved and reverenced you as lords and friends, now they shall dread you as enemies and tyrants. Into your hand are they delivered, for your use and service. I restore you in part to that dominion over them which you for your sins have forfeited.

Genesis 9:2

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.