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Ezekiel 31:15

Ezekiel 31:15

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

I caused a: The deep and all the mighty rivers which cherished this fair tree are here described as mourning at his downfall. They stop their usual courses to bewail his fate, and Lebanon with all its stately trees (his confederates and allies), sympathise with him in his misfortunes. ; ,

mourn: Heb. be black,

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