OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 3:2

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“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

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Verse 2. High. Lit. “straight forward.” Bible.—On the hills, idolatry and immorality prevailed.—Ways, where harlots used to sit. Genesis 38:14. Proverbs 7:9 and 23:27.—Robber; “Arab,” (Chal. and so forth) or “crow.” (Sept.) Calmet.—No sin is so great as to be irremissible to the true penitent. Worthington.

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