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For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
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Verse 8. Naked. Ill clothed, ( Bible.) to shew the approaching calamity of the Israelites. Isaiah 20. Menochius.—Septuagint and Chal. explain all of the people, ( Calmet.) or of Samaria. “Therefore shall she lament and howl, go barefoot and naked, bewail like,” and so forth Bible.—Dragons, when they are crushed by the elephant. Solin xxxviii. Menochius.—Tannim means also ( Bible.) whales, and so forth which make a horrible noise.—Ostriches, or swans. Isaiah 13:21. Both have a mournful note. Calmet.
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