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Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
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Verse 17. Altar of holocausts. They turned towards the holy place, lying prostrate. 1 Ezra 10:1 and 2 Maccabees 10:26. Calmet.—Hither the victim of expiation was brought, and the high priest confessed. Maimon.—Over them, as they might easily have done during the famine.
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