OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 47:3

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At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back for their children because their hands are so feeble,

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Verse 3. Marching. Lit. “pomp,” ( Bible.) or warlike apparatus. Bible.—Prot. “stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at,” and so forth Bible.—Children. Fear makes one forget the nearest relations, while each one provides for himself. Calmet. 9:4. Mic. 7:5. Matthew 10:35.

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