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Jeremiah 20:10

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For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

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Verse 10. Side, seeking an opportunity to ruin me, as the Pharisees did our Saviour. Psalms 40:10. Calmet.—Prot. “familiars watched for my halting, saying, peradventure he,” and so forth Bible.

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