OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 15:8

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Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

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Verse 8. Man, or “a spoiler of the young man,” ( Bible.) so that the widow shall also be deprived of her children. Hebrew “the young spoiler,” Nabuchodonosor. He shall not come like a night thief, to attack the metropolis.

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