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Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.
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Verse 7. Of all. She compares her past happiness with her present chastisement.—Sabbaths, or days of rest. The pagans derided them as so much lost time. Ignava et partem vitæ non attigit ullam. Juv. v. Seneca ap. Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. vi. 11.—If none of their legislators thought of such an institution, it was because they had not the spirit of Moses: their feasts were dissolute. Calmet.
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