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Lamentations 5:14

The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 5:14

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

From the gate. The place where the elders, technically so called, assembled for legal proceedings, and where the citizens in general met together for social concourse (comp. Genesis 19:1; Ruth 4:11; Psalms 69:12; Amos 5:12, Amos 5:15; Daniel 2:49).

From their music (comp. Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9).

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