Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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Jeremiah 49:25
But how should so worshipful and glorious a city be forsaken?
Jeremiah 50:23
How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and bruised in sunder? How chanceth it that Babylon is become a wilderness among the Heathen on this manner?