And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned unto me,
says the LORD.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dulness, (stuporem) as when the teeth have bitten at a stone (Haydock) and are edged, Jeremias xxxi. 29. Septuagint, "gnashing. "Hebrew, "cleanness "through want of food. Eliseus foretold a famine under Achab, 4 Kings viii. 1. That of Joel (i.) seems to have happened later than this. (Calmet)
God sent these afflictions for their amendment. (Worthington)
