OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 51:19

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These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

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Verse 19. Two. War and famine cause desolation and destruction. Worthington.—Jerusalem was reduced to the greatest misery in the last siege under Nabuchodonosor. Lamentations 4:3. Calmet.

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