OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 3:24

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It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

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Verse 24. Stench. The Jews are noted on this account, as if in consequence of this curse, or of their being confined to prisons, and so forth Fœtentium Judæorum et tumultuantium sæpe tædio percitus.—Menochius. Aurelius “was often weary of the stinking and seditious Jews.” Marcellin ii.

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