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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Ezekiel 37:11

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Our bones are dried-- (Psa 141:7), explained by "our hope is lost" (Isa 49:14); our national state is as hopeless of resuscitation, as marrowless bones are of reanimation. cut off for our parts--that is, so far as we are concerned. There is nothing in us to give hope, like a withered branch "cut off" from a tree, or a limb from the body.
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