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jeremiah 14:17 "And you will say this word to them, 'Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound.
17.
(Jer 9:1;
La 1:16).
Jeremiah is desired to weep ceaselessly for the calamities coming on
his nation (called a "virgin," as being heretofore never under foreign
yoke),
(Isa 23:4).