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your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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Verse 12. Dust, like a suppliant. Isaiah 47:1. Calmet.—Dry. The country shall be equally unfruitful. The waters of the Euphrates being let off, gave a passage to the enemy. verse 9. Bible.—Babylon soon lost its splendour. Calmet.—Vologeses completed its ruin. Pliny vi. 26.—It ceased to be the metropolis or mother city. Bible.—The whole country was laid waste. Worthington.
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