Psalms 79:3 (KJV)

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Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them
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Their. Ps 79:10 Mt 23:35 Ro 8:36 Re 16:6 Re 17:6 Re 18:24

and there, etc.Either there was no friend or relation left to bury them, or none was allowed to perform this last sad office. The despotism of eastern princes often proceeds to such a degree of extravagance as to fill the mind with astonishment and horror. In Morocco, no person dares to bury the body of a malefactor without an order from the emperor; and Windus, speaking of a man who was to have been sawn in two, informs us, that "his body must have remained to be eaten by the dogs, if the emperor had not pardoned him." Ps 141:7 Jer 8:1 Jer 8:2 Jer 14:16 Jer 15:3 Jer 16:4 Jer 25:33 Jer 34:20 Re 11:9

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