OLD TESTAMENT

Habakkuk 2:8

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Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

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Verse 8. Blood. For cruelty, avarice, and so forth the Chaldees shall be ruined. Worthington.—City, different from that land of the Arabs, who dwell under tents. This city may denote Jerusalem, Babylon, and so forth

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