OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 51:36

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Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

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Verse 36. Spring; commerce, the source of her riches; or rather the waters shall be brought out of their usual channels. For many ages ( Calmet.) the Euphrates has been lost in sands, and reaches not the Persian Gulph. Pliny vii. 27. Cellar. iii. 16.

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