And death shall be chosen rather than life,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the nations among whom they should dwell; see Re 9:6.
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Jeremiah 8:3
Jeremiah 8:3
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