OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 49:14

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I have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!”

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Verse 14. Ambassador; Jeremias: or rather this is a personification of the passions, which would sufficiently prompt the Chaldees. Calmet.—A good angel might urge them to execute the divine decrees. Theodoret.—The greatest armies are thus made use of by Providence, without approving of their malicious designs.

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