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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Lamentations 1:15

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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1:15 his beloved city: God had given special care to Jerusalem, like a father protecting his daughter. But her sins had been persistent, and her punishment was horrible. • like grapes . . . trampled in a winepress: This common procedure for extracting juice from grapes is used vividly in Isa 63:3 to show the horrors of punishment. In Rev 14:18-20; 19:15, the image graphically represents universal judgment.
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