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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Jeremiah 5:10

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Abrupt apostrophe to the Babylonians, to take Jerusalem, but not to destroy the nation utterly (see on Jer 4:27). battlements--rather, tendrils [MAURER]: the state being compared to a vine (Jer 12:10), the stem of which was to be spared, while the tendrils (the chief men) were to be removed.
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