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Lamentations 2:15

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The combination of scorn, enmity, rage, and exultation, which the conquerors and spectators manifested at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, are here described with peculiar pathos and energy. The whole scene is presented to view as in an exquisitely finished historical painting.

that pass: Deuteronomy 29:22-28; 1 Kings 9:7-9; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Jeremiah 18:16

by: Heb. by the way

clap: Lamentations 1:8; Job 27:22-23; Ezekiel 25:6; Nahum 3:19

they: Lamentations 2:16; Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 29:18, Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 6:16; Zephaniah 2:15

wag: 2 Kings 19:21; Psalms 22:7, Psalms 44:14-15; Isaiah 37:22; Jeremiah 18:16; Matthew 27:39; Mark 15:29

Is this: Lamentations 2:6; Psalms 48:2, Psalms 50:2; Isaiah 64:11

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