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Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 4:8

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Jeremiah4:8

8 For this gird you with sackcloth , lament and howl : for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us .

The usual habit of mourners, especially in those dayes, Isa. 22.12. chap. 6.26. it is a calling upon them to repent.

Probably these expressions do import the several wayes, that men have to set forth their bitter complaints, and sorrows of the mind, both by the gestures of the body, chap. 2.37. Luk. 18.13. and expressions of the Tongue, Psal. 32.3. Isa. 59.11.

Neither will it, until it have accomplished its ends, chap. 30.24.

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