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Barnes' Notes on Jeremiah 14:17

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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A message from God to the effect that the calamity would be so overwhelming as to cause perpetual weeping; it is set before the people under the representation of Jeremiah’s own sorrow. The virgin daughter of my people - The epithet testifies to God’s previous care of Judah. She had been as jealously guarded from other nations as virgins are in an oriental household (compare Song of Solomon 4:12). return to 'Top of Page'
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