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Jeremiah 36:7

It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

They. Literally, "their supplication may fall prostrate before "(Haydock) It is personified. So Homer represents (Calmet) "supplications "as daughters of Jupiter, lame, and with eyes averted, (Iliad ix.) to show how we ought to pray. Jeremias finds means to instruct the people: the word of God is not bound, 2 Timothy ii. 9. (Calmet) As many refused to hear his discourses, God ordered him to write what might be a perpetual warning and reproach, or testimony against them. (Worthington)

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