OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 2:20

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“Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Verse 20. Dealt. Lit. “gathered grapes.” Calmet. 1:12. Bible.—Long; quite small. Psalms 38:9. This has been denounced, Calmet. 19:9. Deuteronomy 28:53. Calmet. It took place at Samaria, and in the last siege of Jerusalem, (Jos. Bel. vii. and viii. Worthington.) as well as at this time. Bible.

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