This is thy lot,.... Meaning not the king's, or the queen's only, but the lot of the whole Jewish state:the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; which were divided and distributed, and measured out to them by the Lord, who appointed these calamities to befall them, and brought them upon them, and that in righteous judgment.
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Jeremiah 13:25
Jeremiah 13:25
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