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Jeremiah 4:30

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30

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.

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Verse 30. Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 Kennicott. 9:30) to darken and enlarge the eye-lids.—Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, and so forth

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