OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 3:51

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51

My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

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Verse 51. Wasted. Lit. “robbed.” Bible.—I have felt more for my people than they have themselves. Moral writers often product this text, to shew the dangers of an unguarded glance ( Calmet.) at women.

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