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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Lamentations 3:6

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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set me--HENDERSON refers this to the custom of placing the dead in a sitting posture. dark places--sepulchers. As those "dead long since"; so Jeremiah and his people are consigned to oblivion (Psa 88:5-6; Psa 143:3; Eze 37:13).
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