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Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Verse 20. Remember, and so forth This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by the Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon them in punishment for their crimes. Challoner.—Jeremias had prayed earnestly for the people. Calmet. 14:17. Bible.
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