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Lamentations 2:3

Lamentations 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

the horn: Job 16:15; Psalms 75:5, Psalms 75:10, Psalms 89:24, Psalms 132:17; Jeremiah 48:25; Luke 1:69

he hath: Psalms 74:11

he burned: Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalms 79:5, Psalms 89:46; Isaiah 1:31, Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 4:4, Jeremiah 7:20; Malachi 4:1; Luke 3:17

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