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Jeremiah 10:19

Western Saints

Jerome

Woe is me for my brokenness, my grievous wound. LXX: Woe is you for your brokenness, your grievous wound. According to the Hebrew text, Jerusalem itself speaks, expressing that it has been heavily afflicted and endures an incurable wound. However, according to the LXX, it is the Prophet who speaks to Jerusalem and laments over its brokenness and its wound. But I say, truly this is my weakness (or my wound), and I will bear it (or it seizes me). …

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