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These two things are befallen you, who shall bemoan you? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
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Two Causes, Two Effects
Scholars explain that the verse's structure reveals the totality of the disaster. The initial "two things" are amplified into four: two causes ("famine and the sword") and their two devastating effects ("desolation and destruction"). This poetic pairing emphasizes how completely the calamity would overwhelm the people.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These two things are come to you – Margin, ‘Happened.’ That is, two sources of calamity have come upon you; namely, famine and the sword, …
19th Century
Anglican
These two things ... —The two things are amplified into four: (1) the two effects, and (2) the two causes.
16th Century
Protestant
These two things have happened to you. Nearly the same thing was already asserted concerning Babylon,
These two things shall be…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
These two things are come upon you Affliction from the hand of God, though by means of enemies, and no friends to he…
God calls upon his people to be mindful of the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the…
13th Century
Catholic
Give ear to me, you that follow justice. Here he addresses the second obstacle to their liberation, which might be assumed from …
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