Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lamentation. Such canticles were usual, Isaias xiv.
Israel. It no longer formed a separate kingdom. (Calmet)
When the people fear no evil, God laments for them. (Worthington)