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Jeremiah 12:17

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

But if they will not obey,.... Or "hear" ; the word of the Lord, and hearken to the ministers of the Gospel, and be subject to the ordinances of it; or as the Targum,"will not receive instruction:''I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the Lord: root it up from being a nation, strip it of all its privileges and enjoyments, and destroy it with an everlasting destruction; see Zec 14:16.

wemvy "audierint", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "audient", Cocceius.

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