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Lamentations 4:14

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have wandered: Deuteronomy 28:28-29; Isaiah 29:10-12, Isaiah 56:10, Isaiah 59:9-11; Micah 3:6-7; Matthew 15:14; Ephesians 4:18

they have polluted: Numbers 35:33; Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 2:34

so that men could not touch: or, in that they could not but touch, Numbers 19:16; Hosea 4:2

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