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when you disobey the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the LORD’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”
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Verse 16. And speedily. This word is added to express the force of the Hebrew term. Menochius.—“Punishment is seldom lame in overtaking the wicked. Bible.—This. He emphatically sets before them what labours they had sustained in making the acquisition, and what ingratitude they will be guilty of, if they ever forfeit so great a blessing. Menochius.—The treat or prediction was verified during the captivity, and still more after the destruction of Jerusalem. Calmet.
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