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Jeremiah 5:28

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28

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

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Verse 28. Of the widow, is not in Hebrew Calmet.—Fatherless. Prot. add, “yet they prosper, and they,” and so forth Bible.

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