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Isaiah 32:13-20

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 32:13-20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

A FURTHER MINGLING OF THREATS WITH COMFORTING PROMISES. The women require, like the men, to be both warned and comforted, wherefore the prophet addresses to them, as to the men in . and 31; an intermixture of threatening (, ) with promise ().

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