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Jeremiah 14:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

As a man astonished; rather (comparing the Arabic dahama), as one struck dumb. But Dr. Payne Smith, with much reason, is more than half inclined to follow the Septuagint reading, equivalent to "as one in a deep sleep."

Leave us not; literally, lay us not down; as if a burden of which the bearer is tired.

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