Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
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Interpretation
The Jewish state is described under a threefold character. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety.
Glossary
- Jerusalem Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jerusalem.
- Lebanon Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Jezzine.
- Abarim Place
- Regions beyond; i. e., on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or rather a mountain-chain, over against Jericho, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab. From “the top of Pisgah”, i. e., Mount Nebo. Modern identification: Abarim.
- Bashan Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Saham al Jawlan.