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The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Line, to level it with the ground, (Isaiah 34:11. Calmet.) or to treat it with just severity. Theod.—Bulwark. Lit. “the first wall,” ( Bible.) or ditch, lined with palisades. Alexander ordered the towers to be levelled, and the horses’ manes to be cut, when Hephæstion died, to denote the general sorrow.
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