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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
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Verse 29. Idols. Prot. “oaks, which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens,” and so forth Bible.—the groves were sacred to Venus, and the gardens to Adonis, and were scenes of the greatest immorality and profanation. Calmet. 65:3.
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