OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 47:1

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“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

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Verse 1. Virgin; delicate. Menochius.—Cyrus overthrew this empire, ( Calmet.) which now felt its share of misery. Worthington.

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