OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 16:18

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First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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Verse 18. Double: enormous. Bible. Calmet. 17:18.—I will punish them doubly.—Carcasses. So he styles the victims, or idols, the representations of dead men.

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