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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 2:8

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Lamentations2:8

8. stretched ... a line--The Easterns used a measuring-line not merely in building, but in destroying edifices (2Ki 21:13; Is 34:11); implying here the unsparing rigidness with which He would exact punishment.

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