bent: Lamentations 2:5, Lamentations 3:3, Lamentations 3:12-13; Job 6:4, Job 16:12-14; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah 21:5, Jeremiah 30:14
that were pleasant to the eye: Heb. the desirable of the eye, Ezekiel 24:25
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Lamentations 2:4
Lamentations 2:4
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