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When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, ‘These are the LORD’s people, and have left his land.’
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Verse 20. Land. Yet their conduct was no better than that of infidels. Thus they throw the blame on the law, and upon God himself. Jeremiah 48:9. and so forth Calmet.—The Jews had provoked God to punish them with captivity; and hence the nations took occasion to blaspheme, that he could not protect them.
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