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All of them come for violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather prisoners like sand.
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Verse 9. Burning. Hebrew also, “eastern,” which is hot, and raises the sand of Arabia so as to be very detrimental. Calmet.—Out of 2,000 travellers from Mecca to Aleppo, only twenty-nine escaped such a storm, or kamsin, in that vast desert, Aug. 23, 1813. Rock. 312. Bible.—Sand, from various countries. Isaiah 20:4. Beros. cited c. Ap. i.
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