OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 3:5

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He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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Verse 5. Gall. Septuagint “head.” Chal. “he hath seized the chief.” Job 16:13. He speaks in the name of the besieged, who had been threatened with this punishment. verse 19. Calmet. 8:14. Calmet.—And labour. Nabuzardan ransacked the city worse than his master, ( Worthington.) if the latter was at all present. Bible.

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