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The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
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Verse 6. Burden. This title seems unnecessary, and may be added by some Jew, (Calmet. 21:13) though the Chal. and others explain it, “They carry on their beasts, presents to the south,” to the nations of Arabia and Egypt, infested with lions, and so forth The rest of the prophecy is against the Jews, who cannot well be styled beasts of the south. Calmet.—Basilisk. The ibis devours many serpents on their flight from Arabia and Egypt. Herod. ii. 5. Solin. xxxii.
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