12
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 12. Mourn. Septuagint “beat.” Bible.—Breasts, suckling infants. In mourning, women beat and uncovered their breasts, which, on any other occasion, would have been deemed very indecent. Calmet. Ezekiel 23:34. Herod. ii. 84.
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