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Gill's Exposition
For they have devoured Jacob,.... The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish antichrist: and laid waste his dwelling place; both…
Barnes' Notes
For they have devoured Jacob - literally, “They have eaten.” That is, they have eaten up what the land produced. And laid waste his dwelling-place - His home; his habitation; the residence of Jacob,…
The petitions here put up to God are very suitable to the present distresses of the church, and they have pleas to enforce them, interwoven with them, taken mostly from God's honour.
I. They pray that…
Cambridge Bible
his dwelling place R.V. his habitation, marg. pasture: a different word however from pasturein Psa 79:79.
Psa 79:6-7 recur in Jer 10:25. At first sight it would appear that the prophecy must be…
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