Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Mourn. Septuagint, "beat. "(Haydock)
Breasts, suckling infants. In mourning, women beat and uncovered their breasts, which, on any other occasion, would have been deemed very indecent. (Calmet) (Ezechiel xxiii. 34.) (Herodotus ii. 84.)