OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 1:19

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“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

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Verse 19. Me. Egypt attempted to relieve Juda, to no purpose. verse 2. Calmet.—It could not, or at least did not, prove of any service to the Jews. Calmet. 2:18. Worthington.

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