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Jeremiah 20:8

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

For since I spake, I cried out, etc.; rather, For as often as I speak, I must shout; I must cry, Violence and spoil; I can take up no other tone but that of indignant denunciation, no other theme but that of the acts of injustice constantly committed (not merely, nor indeed chiefly, against the prophet himself).

Was made; rather, is made.

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