OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 4:15

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“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”

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Verse 15. Depart. They were not ashamed to speak thus to others, or the citizens address the priests contaminated with blood. Even the Chaldees looked upon the Jews with abhorrence, as an abandoned people.—For they. Hebrew “but they understood not, and wandered about. They, ( Calmet.) the Gentiles, said.” Bible.

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