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But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”
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Verse 5. Myself, having none greater. Hebrews 6:13. Oaths evince the insincerity of men, who distrust each other; but when God condescends to use them, it shews men’s incredulity.—House, the temple, or rather the palace, where the king was sitting at the gate, verse 2. Calmet.
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