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My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
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Verse 5. My. A charitable heart will grieve for the misfortune of an enemy. Worthington.—I shall join in the general lamentations, though Moab has always been so great an enemy of Israel. Calmet.—Septuagint “the heart of Moab cries in itself to Segor.” Bible.—We will retire thither. Chal.—Bars. Princes. Prot. “his fugitives shall,” and so forth—Heifer. Strong and ungovernable. Hebrew “to Heglath and to Shelishia for,” and so forth though we may as well adhere to the Vulg. Septuagint and so forth
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