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Lamentations 2:2

Lamentations 2:2

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

Habitations; rather, pastures; The word properly means the settlements of shepherds in green, grassy spots, but here designates the country parts in general, distinguished from the "strongholds" of Judah.

Hath polluted. So , "Thou hast profaned [same word as here] his crown [by casting it] to the ground." The wearer of a crown was regarded in the East as nearer to divinity than ordinary mortals; in some countries, indeed, e.

g. in Egypt, almost as an incarnation of the deity. To discrown him was to "pollute" or "profane" him.

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