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Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
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Verse 12. Forests, after its destruction by Nabuchodonosor. Calmet.—In the space of three years’ neglect, shrubs were growing in the courts of the temple. 1 Maccabees 4:38. Bible.—Rufus ploughed up the spot where the temple had stood, after the Romans had burnt it down. Saint Jerome Jos. Bel. vii. 20.—This prediction made a deep impression on the minds of the people. It caused them to refrain from killing Jeremias. verse 1. Calmet.
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