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Isaiah 16:9

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Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

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Verse 9. My tears. Calmet. 15:5. Bible.—I announce a different sort of music from that which is customary in times of harvest, and of vintage. The liquor shall be tears. Calmet. 63:2. Jeremiah 48:32. 33. Calmet.

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