OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 5:22

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But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

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Verse 22. Thou hast. We might read with an interrogation, ( Bible.) in Hebrew “Hast thou?” and so forth The Jews superstitiously repeat the last verse, for fear of ending the book in an ominous manner, as they do at the end of Isaias and Malachias. Calmet.—Having treated us so severely, stop thy hand. Worthington.—But I perceive it will be in vain to beg for redress till the seventy years be expired. Menochius.

BARUCH

THE PROPHECY OF BARUCH

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