OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 20:8

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For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because the LORD’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

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Verse 8. Day. They keep asking where are these enemies from the north, the plagues? and so forth Calmet.—He is sorry to see the word of God despised, (Theod.) and is guilty of a venial pusillanimity, concluding that his words had no good effect. Menochius.

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