OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 2:6

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He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

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Verse 6. Tent: the temple, with the same indifference as if it had been a hut, built to guard the fruit of a garden. Isaiah 5:5. Psalms 79:13.—Sabbaths. The Jews rested, but could offer no sacrifices in captivity.—Priest. Saraias was slain, and Sedecias imprisoned, and so forth Calmet. 52:10. Calmet.

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