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Lamentations 3:17

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17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #121

  
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121. Internal Meaning of Lamentations, Chapter 3

1-66 Description of the combats of the Lord with hells, which were especially from the Israelitish and Jewish church, with despair, because all had been in evils and in falsities therefrom, and against the Lord;, (7, 6)

He invokes the Father that He may not be forsaken and that He may conquer and subjugate these hells. These things in a summary. (13)

  
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