OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 1:11

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All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, LORD, and see, for I have become despised.”

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Verse 11–12. O. Hebrew of the Masor. “It is.” Calmet.—Prot. “Is it nothing to you, all?” and so forth Bible.—But the Vulg. is much clearer, and approved by many Protestants, lu being often used as an exclamation. Genesis 17:18. Calmet.—Vintage. He has plundered all. verse 22. Bible.—The king took a great deal, and his general the rest. 4 Kin. 24 and 25. Worthington.

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