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Lamentations 2:16

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16 All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen [it].

Commentary

 

Vengeance, day of

  

In Isaiah 34:8; 63:4, the day of vengeance signifies a state of damnation; also the Last Judgment. (Apocalypse Explained 413[6, 7])

'Day of vengeance' signifies a state of damnation.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 488)