OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 8:19

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Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”

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Verse 19. Sion. Thus the people complain, ( Menochius.) or God answers them that they had no reason to have recourse to idols for protection. Calmet.

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