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Lamentations 1:1

Lamentations 1:1

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How doth: The LXX have the following words as an introduction: "And it came to pass after Israel had been carried captive, and Jerusalem was become desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said." , ; ; ; ;

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