OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 38:22

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‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

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Verse 22. Say. At parting, bewailing thy blindness, which has entailed misery upon all. Bible.—Of peace. That is, thy false friends, promising thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels involving thee in misery. Challoner.—Mire. He alludes to his own treatment, ( Calmet.) which he had received from these false counsellors or princes. verse 4. Bible.

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