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Her pleasant things – Chiefly, the sacred vessels of the temple (2 Chronicles 36:10).
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Upon all her pleasant things ... —The use of a similar phrase in 2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19, of the ve…

The Prophet again deplores the profanation of all sacred things. This complaint, as I have said, proceeded from the bitterest sorrow. For though it…

The enemy has spread out his hands on all her pleasant
things
Meaning not the wealth …

The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person. At other times, Jerusalem, personified as a distressed woman, or some of the Jews are the speakers.…

Here, the prophet weeps over their bondage concerning the looting of their possessions, which they endured from their victorious enemies.
He…
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