The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. The Lord was as an enemy - (Jeremiah 30:14, "I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy"). Mourning and lamentation. There is a play of similar sounds in the original х ta'ªniyaah (H8386) wa'ªniyaah (H592], 'sorrow and sadness,' to heighten the effect (Job 30:3, Hebrew; Ezekiel 35:3, margin, 'desolation and desolation').
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